Top 1758 Quotes & Sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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.
A person hears only what they understand.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
I call architecture frozen music.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Live dangerously and you live right.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Love can do much, but duty more.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Precaution is better than cure.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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