Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 2

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. View quote
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. View quote
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. View quote
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The happy do not believe in miracles. View quote
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy. View quote
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Nothing is worth more than this day. View quote
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. View quote
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. View quote
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
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Character develops itself in the stream of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. View quote
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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. View quote
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In art the best is good enough. View quote
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. View quote
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. View quote
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. View quote
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Architecture is crystallized music. View quote
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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. View quote
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Wisdom is found only in truth. View quote
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. View quote
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. View quote
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What we don't understand we don't possess. View quote
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. View quote
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