Quotes By Author: Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day”

“I see no end to my misery but the grave.”

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. – Without haste, but without rest.”

“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.”

“Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.”

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.”

“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”