Study Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12 Study quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s twelve brief reflections link study with artistic creation and personal refinement. Though limited in number, they capture his classic blend of intellect and aesthetic sensitivity.

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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with…

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

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If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

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We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

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“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost…

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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of…

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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost…

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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you…

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All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one…

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Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…

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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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