Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Experience is only half of experience

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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

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

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

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

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

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.