Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.