Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

219 Famous Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Action Quotes
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Action Quotes
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
Dreams Quotes
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
Friendship Quotes
“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”
Government Quotes
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Ignorance Quotes
“Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever”
Joy Quotes
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Knowledge Quotes
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”
Knowledge Quotes
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”
Men Quotes
“For the nature of women is closely allied to art”
Nature Quotes
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Thinking Quotes
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”
Thinking Quotes
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment”
Unhappiness Quotes
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Action Quotes
“To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability”
Advice Quotes
“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions”
Anecdotes Quotes
“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work”
Art Quotes
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Becoming yourself Quotes
“Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image”
Behavior Quotes
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
Collaboration Quotes
“He who moves not forward, goes backward”
Courage Quotes
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Culture Quotes
“In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday”
Day Quotes
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
Deception Quotes