Goethe Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

25 Famous Quotes by Goethe
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Trust Quotes
“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.”
Understanding Quotes
“Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”
Hope Quotes
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Ideas Quotes
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Ignorance Quotes
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
Friendship Quotes
“If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.”
Change Quotes
“Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.”
Genius Quotes
“All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe.”
Heart-quotes Quotes
“He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.”
Liberty Quotes
“My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“On all the peaks lies peace.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“What have they done to you my poor child?”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“More light!”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!”
Miscellaneous Quotes