The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — 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
