A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge… — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
