If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. — 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 dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — 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
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to… — 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
