What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. — 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
