Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Silence

• Create, artist, do not talk.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Silence

• Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Silence, Lessons

• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

• Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fall, Men, Silence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.53

• Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Exercise, Men, Silence

• To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Silence, Here And There

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

• Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Silence, Objects

• Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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