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Quote #1. A man hears only what he understands. -Goethe
Quote #2. Habit is the most imperious of all masters. -Goethe
Quote #3. The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. -Goethe
Quote #4. mistakes. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #5. What we don't know is just what we need to know. -Goethe
Quote #6. You are the man they'll idolize. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #7. I call architecture frozen music. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #8. A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. -Goethe
Quote #9. Common sense is the genius of humanity. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #10. A person hears only what they understand. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #11. We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #12. Few people have the imagination for reality. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #13. Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #14. Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation. -Goethe
Quote #15. One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. -Goethe
Quote #16. a man turns again to truth as with new vigour. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #17. The right man is the one that seizes the moment. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #18. Right by the forelock, courage rallying. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust.
Quote #19. There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #20. He who has a firm will molds the world to himself. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quote #21. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #22. Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. -Goethe
Quote #23. Touch where you will, 'tis full of interest. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust.
Quote #24. It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #25. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #26. The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quote #27. If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #28. Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #29. drags false and true with it in its train. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #30. Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. -Goethe
Quote #31. A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quote #32. A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it is true, but as it is significant. -Goethe
Quote #33. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust.
Quote #34. A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #35. When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #36. Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #37. Defects are perceived only by one who has no love. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #38. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #39. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #40. Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #41. Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #42. If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #43. If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #44. Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #45. Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #46. A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. -Goethe
Quote #47. Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #48. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #49. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #50. There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #51. Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #52. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quote #53. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #54. Generosity wins favor for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #55. Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #56. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm . . . in the real world all rests on perseverance. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #57. If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #58. The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. -Goethe
Quote #59. Do but grasp into the thick of human life! Every one lives it—to not many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #60. Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #61. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #62. Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself ; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #63. To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence--this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #64. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. -Johann von Goethe
Quote #65. If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can do everything. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #66. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #67. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #68. A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a barren heath, driven round and round by an evil sprit, while there extends on all sides of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture. -Goethe
Quote #69. The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #70. So obstinately contradictory is man that you cannot compel him to his advantage, yet he yields before everything that compels him to his hurt. -Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.
Quote #71. The man of analytic, or critical, intellect finds something ridiculous in almost everything; the man of synthetic, or constructive, intellect, in almost nothing. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #72. But, as a rule, a man's knowledge, of whatever kind it may be, determines what he shall do and what he shall leave undone, and so it is that there is no more terrible sight than ignorance in action. -Goethe
Quote #73. A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #74. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #75. Truth is at variance with our natures, but not so error; and for a very simple reason. Truth requires us to recognise ourselves as limited, but error flatters us with the belief that in one way or another we are subject to no bounds at all. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #76. We must not hope to be mowers, and to gather the ripe gold ears, unless we have first been sowers and watered the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, this mystical world of ours, life's field will yield as we make it a harvest of thorns or of flowers. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #77. We have taken it upon us to say that if such is, in any sense, the state of the case with regard to Goethe, he deserves not mere approval as a pleasing poet and sweet singer; but deep, grateful study, observance, imitation, as a Moralist and Philosopher. -Preface, Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life.
Quote #78. let no day pass without gathering something ; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote #79. An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. For an actor to represent a Greek hero it is imperative he should have thoroughly studied those antique statues which have lasted to our day, and mastered the particular grace they exhibited in their postures, whether sitting, standing, or walking. Nor should he make attitude his only study. He should highly develop his mind by an assiduous study of the best writers, ancient and modern, which will enable him not only to understand his parts, but to communicate a nobler coloring to his manners and mien. -Goethe
Full-text of Maxims and Reflections of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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