Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe