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
There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. — 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
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks — 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
![“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbb/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_believe_man-usually-believes-if-only-words-he-he_1065968.jpg)
