“No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Every second is of infinite value”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
