Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Every offense is avenged on earth.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.