Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A clever man commits no minor blunders."
Quote link. Other quotes about: answer: "A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find children child: "Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing life love: "A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend life: "All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience think time wise person honest: "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man success: "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A man's errors are what make him amiable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man rich: "Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people person: "A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power think: "Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend friends: "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Character develops itself in the stream of life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."
Quote link.: "Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Quote link.: "Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."
Quote link. Other quotes about: game ideas: "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life nature: "Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."
Quote link.: "Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rule: "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small power men dreams: "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
Quote link.: "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
Quote link. Other quotes about: grow: "Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power human love: "Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth love: "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find peace: "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man: "He who seizes the right moment is the right man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man good mankind influence wish: "He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking duty right think never: "How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
Quote link. Other quotes about: music: "I call architecture frozen music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe friend life book honest teach: "I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man book: "If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man wish soul: "If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "If I love you, what business is it of yours"
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world: "I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe: "If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
Quote link.: "If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "I love those who yearn for the impossible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe never: "I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men man respect understand wish fact: "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man light woman: "It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish: "It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
Quote link.: "Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: deep heaven: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child: "Life is the childhood of our immortality."
Quote link.: "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hard: "Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find rest born: "Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think nothing: "Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man understand: "Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk society: "No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance: "Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old truth: "Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance: "Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe good: "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children child: "One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason day little good words: "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends teach: "Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Plunge boldly into the thick of life"
Quote link. Other quotes about: die something time life: "Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time: "So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human life: "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe love alone: "That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art alone: "The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
Quote link.: "The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first truth love: "The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good: "The ground that a good man treads is hallowed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness man: "The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man hard: "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man understand: "The man of understanding finds everything laughable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think never man conscience: "The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing worse: "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good women society: "The society of women is the element of good manners."
Quote link.: "The unnatural, that too is natural."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."
Quote link.: "To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man law: "To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason world life look: "Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "We are never deceived we deceive ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change hard: "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government teach: "What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Quote link.: "What is not fully understood is not possessed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk never people men love ideas: "Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words ideas: "When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man worse: "When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope man life wish: "Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours power never: "Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."

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