Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Understanding

• A person hears only what they understand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Positivity

• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Friendship, Marriage

• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Learning, Understanding

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

• The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Understanding, He Man

• What is not fully understood is not possessed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Understanding, Understood

• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Understanding, Misunderstood

• What we do not understand we do not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

• No one should be rich except those who understand it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, Wealth, Rich

• Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, Literature, Understanding And Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

• We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Character, Understanding

• What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding

• To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, Half, Wells

• And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, World, Way

• Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effort, Understanding, Impatient

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.174, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Character, Errors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.346, Ravenio Books

• The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Understanding, Grows

• A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Men, Understanding

• All understanding begins in wonder!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, Wonder

• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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