Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things are only transitory.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism ruins history.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe