Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: A Curated Collection of the Best Inspirational, Motivational, and Thought-Provoking Sayings Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Total Quotes 1748
Properly Speaking, We Learn From Those Books Only That We Cannot Judge. The Author Of A Book That I Am Competent To Criticise Would Have To Learn From Me.
Book
Judging
Competent
Secrecy Has Many Advantages, For When You Tell Someone The Purpose Of Any Object Right Away, They Often Think There Is Nothing To It.
Thinking
Purpose
Persuasion
If Each One Does Their Duty As An Individual And If Each One Works In Their Own Proper Vocation, It Will Be Right With The Whole.
Doe
Management
Individual
Enjoy What Thou Has Inherited From Thy Sires If Thou Wouldn't Really Possess It. What We Employ And Use Is Never An Oppressive Burden; What The Moment Brings Forth, That Only Can It Profit By.
Feelings
Use
Moments
Wind Is The Loving Wooer Of Waters; Wind Blends Together Billows All-foaming. Spirit Of Man, Thou Art Like Unto Water! Fortune Of Man, Thou Art Like Unto Wind!
Art
Men
Clouds
No One Feels Himself Easy In A Garden Which Does Not Look Like The Open Country.
Country
Garden
Doe
What Is The True Test Of Character Unless It Be Its Progressive Development In The Bustle And Turmoil, In The Action And Reaction Of Daily Life.
Character
Development
Tests
The Useful May Be Trusted To Further Itself, For Many Produce It And No One Can Do Without It; But The Beautiful Must Be Specially Encouraged, For Few Can Present It, While Yet All Have Need Of It.
Beauty
Beautiful
Needs
Oral Delivery Aims At Persuasion And Making The Listener Believe They Are Converted. Few Persons Are Capable Of Being Convinced The Majority Allow Themselves To Be Persuaded.
Believe
Majority
Persuasion
A World Without Love Would Be No World.
Would Be
World
Without Love
The Desire To Explain What Is Simple By What Is Complex, What Is Easy By What Is Difficult, Is A Calamity.
Simple
Desire
Easy
A Mathematician Is Only Perfect Insofar As He Is A Perfect Man, Sensitive To The Beauty Of Truth.
Men
Perfect
Sensitive
  • Born: August 28, 1749
  • Died: March 22, 1832
  • Occupation: Writer
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