Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
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The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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To create something you must be something.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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I will be lord over myself.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.