Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Teachers

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

• If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Soul, Your Soul

• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

• 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

• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Sleep, Students

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

• Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Great Teacher

• I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Comedian, Might

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.21

• There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Teaching, Scholar

• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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