Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end. — 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
“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” — 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
“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.” — 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
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — 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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. — 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
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — 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
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
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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
