We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a… — 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
“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. — 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
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you… — 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
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else. — 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
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it. — 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
