Intelligence Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 Intelligence quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s thoughts on mental acuity blend his poetic sensibility with Enlightenment rationalism. In 18 concise statements you’ll sense a mind that values both feeling and reason.

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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for…

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert…

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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought,…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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