There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -… — 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