Quotes
Quotes - Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe.
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Before you can do something you must first be something.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
Every situation-nay, every moment-is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
