Famous Quotes / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
443 Quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 361. Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
- 362. This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them e ...
- 363. Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
- 364. Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
- 365. Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
- 366. Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
- 367. Through seeking and blundering we learn.
- 368. Time itself is an element.
- 369. To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- 370. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- 371. To create something you must be something.
- 372. To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
- 373. To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or ...
- 374. To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
- 375. To the person with a firm purpose, all men and things are servants.
- 376. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
- 377. To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- 378. To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
- 379. Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it i ...
- 380. Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he poten ...