Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Experience

• By seeking and blundering we learn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Mistake, Learning

• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Experience, Practicals

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Experience, Apprenticeship

• Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Enough, Pure

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.59, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Experience is only half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Half

• Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Ideas, Experience

• The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Limits, Fields

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

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