Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

I Can Tell You, Honest Friend, What To Believe: Believe Life; It Teaches Better That Book Or Orator.

Devote Each Day To The Object Then In Time And Every Evening Will Find Something Done.

We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

I Do Not Know Myself, And God Forbid That I Should.

If A Man Writes A Book, Let Him Set Down Only What He Knows. I Have Guesses Enough Of My Own.

Men Show Their Character In Nothing More Clearly Than What They Think Laughable.

If You Must Tell Me Your Opinions, Tell Me What You Believe In. I Have Plenty Of Doubts Of My Own.

He Is Dead In This World Who Has No Belief In Another.

Common Sense Is The Genius Of Humanity.

Unlike Grown Ups, Children Have Little Need To Deceive Themselves.

The Best Government Is That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves.

Objects In Pictures Should So Be Arranged As By Their Very Position To Tell Their Own Story.

What By A Straight Path Cannot Be Reached By Crooked Ways Is Never Won.

I Will Listen To Anyone's Convictions, But Pray Keep Your Doubts To Yourself.

If A Man Or Woman Is Born Ten Years Sooner Or Later, Their Whole Aspect And Performance Shall Be Different.

He Who Has A Task To Perform Must Know How To Take Sides, Or He Is Quite Unworthy Of It.

Upon The Creatures We Have Made, We Are, Ourselves, At Last, Dependent.

Talent Develops In Quiet Places, Character In The Full Current Of Human Life.

No One Has Ever Learned Fully To Know Themselves.

Be Above It! Make The World Serve Your Purpose, But Do Not Serve It.

We Always Have Time Enough, If We Will But Use It Aright.

The Decline Of Literature Indicates The Decline Of A Nation.

Divide And Rule, The Politician Cries; Unite And Lead, Is Watchword Of The Wise.

An Unused Life Is An Early Death.

Wood Burns Because It Has The Proper Stuff In It; And A Man Becomes Famous Because He Has The Proper Stuff In Him.

The Man Who Occupies The First Place Seldom Plays The Principal Part.

I Never Knew A More Presumptuous Person Than Myself. The Fact That I Say That Shows That What I Say Is True.

To Appreciate The Noble Is A Gain Which Can Never Be Torn From Us.

He Who Possesses Art And Science Has Religion; He Who Does Not Possess Them, Needs Religion.

To Create Something You Must Be Something.

What Is My Life If I Am No Longer Useful To Others.

The Formation Of One's Character Ought To Be Everyone's Chief Aim.

Behavior Is The Mirror In Which Everyone Shows Their Image.

The Credit Of Advancing Science Has Always Been Due To Individuals And Never To The Age.

In The Realm Of Ideas Everything Depends On Enthusiasm... In The Real World All Rests On Perseverance.

When Ideas Fail, Words Come In Very Handy.

I Love Those Who Yearn For The Impossible.

That I Be Not As Those Are Who Spend The Day In Complaining Of Headache And The Night In Drinking The Wine Which Gives The Headache!

There Is Nothing So Terrible As Activity Without Insight.

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.

Go To Foreign Countries And You Will Get To Know The Good Things One Possesses At Home.

Everybody Wants To Be Somebody; Nobody Wants To Grow.

If God Had Wanted Me Otherwise, He Would Have Created Me Otherwise.

All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own.

Many People Take No Care Of Their Money Till They Come Nearly To The End Of It, And Others Do Just The Same With Their Time.

If Children Grew Up According To Early Indications, We Should Have Nothing But Geniuses.

It Is After All The Greatest Art To Limit And Isolate Oneself.

Precaution Is Better Than Cure.

Love And Desire Are The Spirit's Wings To Great Deeds.

The Coward Only Threatens When He Is Safe.