Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 3

• Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

  269 Copy quote

• Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thieves, Fool, Temper

  11 Copy quote

• It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Thanksgiving, Blessed

  10 Copy quote

• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

  63 Copy quote

• Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Peace, Enemy

  110 Copy quote

• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forgiveness, Eye, Practice

  34 Copy quote

• Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Keeping Secrets, Wish, Kept Secrets

  15 Copy quote

• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Truth, School

  24 Copy quote

• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

  44 Copy quote

• The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Slave

  64 Copy quote

• Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Giving, Receiving

  14 Copy quote

• People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  76 Copy quote
• 

  What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Important, Contentment

  32 Copy quote

• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  19 Copy quote

• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Teaching, Use

  91 Copy quote

• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Self, Deceit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.525, Delphi Classics

  25 Copy quote

• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Live Life, Men

  31 Copy quote

• Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Thinking, Imagine

  19 Copy quote

• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

  110 Copy quote

• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  "'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

  34 Copy quote

• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

  16 Copy quote

• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  76 Copy quote

• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Night, Reality

  10 Copy quote

• Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stupidity, Reason, Humans

  13 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Friedrich Schiller

Heinrich Heine

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lord Byron

William Shakespeare

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Johann Gottfried Herder

Immanuel Kant