Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Certainty

• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Old Friends, Strange

• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

• There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Doubt

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.236, Ravenio Books

• Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Doubt, Enough

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