Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Inspiration

• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

• Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Communication, Inspiration

• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

• When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Being Alone

• He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Learning, Knowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.293, Courier Corporation

• The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Hero, Virtue

• The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Genius, Resources

• Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Shining, Glitter

• Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Thinking, Analysis

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