Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

What Is Important In Life Is Life, And Not The Result Of Life.

The Human Mind Will Not Be Confined To Any Limits.

Deeply Earnest And Thoughtful People Stand On Shaky Footing With The Public.

Thinking Is More Interesting Than Knowing, But Less Interesting Than Looking.

Be Generous With Kindly Words, Especially About Those Who Are Absent.

Wisdom Is Found Only In Truth.

Ignorant Men Raise Questions That Wise Men Answered A Thousand Years Ago.

Daring Ideas Are Like Chessmen Moved Forward; They May Be Beaten, But They May Start A Winning Game.

We Are Never Deceived; We Deceive Ourselves.

If I Love You, What Business Is It Of Yours?

Doubt Grows With Knowledge.

A Man's Manners Are A Mirror In Which He Shows His Portrait.

Only By Joy And Sorrow Does A Person Know Anything About Themselves And Their Destiny. They Learn What To Do And What To Avoid.

There Is Nothing Insignificant In The World. It All Depends On The Point Of View.

Every Day We Should Hear At Least One Little Song, Read One Good Poem, See One Exquisite Picture, And, If Possible, Speak A Few Sensible Words.

Error Is Acceptable As Long As We Are Young; But One Must Not Drag It Along Into Old Age.

The Person Born With A Talent They Are Meant To Use Will Find Their Greatest Happiness In Using It.

Great Thoughts And A Pure Heart, That Is What We Should Ask From God.

Beauty Is A Manifestation Of Secret Natural Laws, Which Otherwise Would Have Been Hidden From Us Forever.

Girls We Love For What They Are; Young Men For What They Promise To Be.

No One Would Talk Much In Society If They Knew How Often They Misunderstood Others.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Willing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

He Who Does Not Think Much Of Himself Is Much More Esteemed Than He Imagines.

The Man With Insight Enough To Admit His Limitations Comes Nearest To Perfection.

Letters Are Among The Most Significant Memorial A Person Can Leave Behind Them.

It Is In Self-limitation That A Master First Shows Himself.

All Intelligent Thoughts Have Already Been Thought; What Is Necessary Is Only To Try To Think Them Again.

Whoever Wishes To Keep A Secret Must Hide The Fact That He Possesses One.

What Is Uttered From The Heart Alone, Will Win The Hearts Of Others To Your Own.

The Hardest Thing To See Is What Is In Front Of Your Eyes.

The World Remains Ever The Same.

Man Is Made By His Belief. As He Believes, So He Is.

Talk Well Of The Absent Whenever You Have The Opportunity.

Nothing Is More Terrible Than To See Ignorance In Action.

The Intelligent Man Finds Almost Everything Ridiculous, The Sensible Man Hardly Anything.

What Life Half Gives A Man, Posterity Gives Entirely.

The Unnatural, That Too Is Natural.

A Useless Life Is An Early Death.

Superstition Is The Poetry Of Life.

To Hard Necessity Ones Will And Fancy Must Conform.

Know Thyself? If I Knew Myself I Would Run Away.

A Person Places Themselves On A Level With The Ones They Praise.

We Cannot Fashion Our Children After Our Desires, We Must Have Them And Love Them As God Has Given Them To Us.

Death Is A Commingling Of Eternity With Time; In The Death Of A Good Man, Eternity Is Seen Looking Through Time.

Love Can Do Much, But Duty More.

Life Is The Childhood Of Our Immortality.

First And Last, What Is Demanded Of Genius Is Love Of Truth.

For A Man To Achieve All That Is Demanded Of Him He Must Regard Himself As Greater Than He Is.

The Right Man Is The One Who Seizes The Moment.

Mysteries Are Not Necessarily Miracles.