Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

An unused life is an early death.

All things are only transitory.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

In art the best is good enough.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.