Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — 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
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