Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — 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
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — 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
