One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. — 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
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. .… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are… — 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
