--- title: "6 Finished Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" description: "6 Finished quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Plus more from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and more Finished sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoro_235424.jpg" --- > [“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoroughly-finished-a-world/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoro_235424.jpg) > [Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-in-hand-to-do-should-be/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_decision_whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-i_1245978.jpg) > [Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art-we-get-to-know-when-they-have/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_art_neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art_1891574.jpg) > [Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/mannerism-always-wants-to-be-finished-and-doesn-t-enjoy-the-process/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/701/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_enjoy_mannerism-always-wants-to-be-finished-an_1940256.jpg) > [Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/properly-speaking-such-work-is-never-finished-one-must-declare-it-so/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_circumstances_properly-speaking-such-work-is-never-fin_2345946.jpg) > [What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/what-is-not-started-today-is-never-finished-tomorrow/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_what-is-not-started-today-is-never-finis_2796177.jpg) ## Other authors on Finished ## More by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > [True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/true-works-of-art-contain-their-own-theory-and-give-us-the/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-never-believed-in-trying-to-do-anything-whatever-i-set-out-to-do-i/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/all-lyrical-work-must-as-a-whole-be-perfectly-intelligible-but-in/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/we-know-accurately-only-when-we-know-little-with-knowledge-doubt/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/it-is-easier-to-perceive-error-than-to-find-truth-for-the-former-lies/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/there-is-no-patriotic-art-and-no-patriotic-science/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-connoisseur-of-art-must-be-able-to-appreciate-what-is-simply/) [Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Nothing is worse than active ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/nothing-is-worse-than-active-ignorance/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/let-us-not-dream-that-reason-can-ever-be-popular-passions-emotions/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Our foibles are really what make us lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/our-foibles-are-really-what-make-us-lovable/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/instruction-does-much-but-encouragement-everything/) [Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Giving is the business of the rich.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/giving-is-the-business-of-the-rich/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/just-begin-and-the-mind-grows-heated-continue-and-the-task-will-be/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-look-upon-all-four-gospels-as-thoroughly-genuine-for-there-shines/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) > [Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/whatever-we-may-say-against-collections-which-present-authors-in-a/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/finished/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/#itemlist", "name": "6 Finished Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoroughly-finished-a-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoro_235424.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoro_235424.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_finished_i-m-glad-that-i-am-not-young-in-so-thoro_235424.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-in-hand-to-do-should-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_decision_whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-i_1245978.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_decision_whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-i_1245978.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_decision_whatever-we-think-out-whatever-we-take-i_1245978.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the…” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art-we-get-to-know-when-they-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_art_neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art_1891574.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_art_neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art_1891574.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_art_neither-a-work-of-nature-nor-one-of-art_1891574.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them…” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. 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