A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
A person hears only what they understand.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Age merely shows what children we remain.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
All things are only transitory.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
An unused life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
I call architecture frozen music.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Superstition is the poetry of life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The little man is still a man.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The unnatural, that too is natural.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
The world remains ever the same.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
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 Quote
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
To create something you must be something.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Wisdom is found only in truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
