Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Precaution is better than cure.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.