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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel , Communication , Inspiration I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
2206 quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.', 'All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.', and 'Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.'.
Maxims and Reflections Quotes Showing 1-30 of 51. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections. tags: communication , knowledge , languages , travel , understanding.
Beautiful moment, do not pass away! Then you may forge your chains to bind me, Then I will put my life behind me, Then let them hear my death-knell toll, Then from your labours you'll be free, The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall, And time come to an end for me!”. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. tags: time.
2204 quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.', 'What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.', and 'I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Intelligent, Thinking, Intelligence. "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe” One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
