Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 28, 1749

What is not started will never get finished

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe