Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Love can do much, but duty more.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Mastery passes often for egotism.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.