There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — 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
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — 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
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 child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Holy Longing Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, Because the massman will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you when you see the silent candle burning.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — 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
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