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Knowledge Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
- What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
- It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
- I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man…
- Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
- With knowledge grows doubt.
- What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
- The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
- With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims…
- The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
- When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
- At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to…
- The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
- The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more…
- Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
- All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
- We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
- Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
- Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.…
- How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
- Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
- What we do not understand we do not possess.
- Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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