Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Precaution is better than cure.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

A person hears only what they understand.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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.

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

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