Famous Quotes / Goethe
49 Quotations by Goethe
- 21. Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths
- 22. Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action
- 23. Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day.
- 24. Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
- 25. Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips
- 26. Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
- 27. One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them
- 28. One must be something in order to do something.
- 29. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled togethe ...
- 30. Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
- 31. Our senses don't deceive us: our judgement does.
- 32. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities
- 33. Patriotism ruins history.
- 34. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if t ...
- 35. Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- 36. The deed is everything, the glory is naught
- 37. The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m ...
- 38. The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace
- 39. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it
- 40. There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.