Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. — 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
