Understanding Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 Understanding quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s thoughts on understanding weave together the literary and the philosophical, giving you a compact yet rich glimpse into how a master of letters perceived the art of comprehension.

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All understanding begins in wonder!

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What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

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A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

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Everyone hears only what he understands.

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What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be…

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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their…

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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their…

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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That…

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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,…

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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can…

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“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and…

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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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