Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when we are talking she lays her hand upon mine, and in the eagerness of conversation comes closer to me, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
