Know Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14 Know quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s reflections on knowledge come through in a handful of memorable lines. This selection captures his classic voice, letting you see how the 18th‑century thinker still speaks to today’s curiosity.

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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

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We don't get to know anything but what we love.

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To know where a thing is we must have found it.

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We see only what we know.

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

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“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!”

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How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to…

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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right…

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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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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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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