Knowledge Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt grows with knowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With knowledge grows doubt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With knowledge comes more doubt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our knowledge is symbolic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we don't understand we don't possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy - You've worked your way through every school, Even, God help you, Theology, And sweated at it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe