Learning Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By seeking and blundering we learn.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we don't understand we don't possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our knowledge is symbolic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty can never really understand itself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

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

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

“We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone only hears what he understands.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone hears only what he understands.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All understanding begins in wonder!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe