If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. — 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
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. — 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
“He who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his own” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es… — 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
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with… — 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
![“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbb/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_believe_man-usually-believes-if-only-words-he-he_1065968.jpg)
