Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — 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
