Famous Quotes

Quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
• A useless life is an early death.
• Age merely shows what children we remain.
• All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
• An unused life is an early death.
• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
• Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
• Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
• Character develops itself in the stream of life.
• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
• Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
• Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
• Doubt grows with knowledge.
• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
• Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
• Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
• Few people have the imagination for reality.
• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
• Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
• Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
• Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
• Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
• He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
• I call architecture frozen music.
• I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
• I love those who yearn for the impossible.
• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
• If I love you, what business is it of yours?
• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.