Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 8

• Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Half

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• It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Reason, Butlers

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• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Science, Medicine

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• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Limits, Humans

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1849). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: The autobiography [etc.] The concluding books. Also Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy, tr. by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison”, p.443

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• Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attention, Opponents, Pay

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.135, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Concentration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.117

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• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Campaigns, Way

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• I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  History, Promise, Sincere

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”

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• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Habit, Masters

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• We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Character, Men

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• The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Hearing, Likes

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• Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Mind, Tasks

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• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Enough, Anxious

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• Live dangerously and you live right.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Insightful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1957). “Goethe's Faust, Part 1: New American Version”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Infinite, Exploration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mean, Adversity

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Common Sense, Advantage, Sensible

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• Doubt grows with knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Doubt, Grows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Highest

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• The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wine, Want, Rich

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• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Faults

  "Conversations with Goethe". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, 1836.

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• Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Book, Daily Life

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

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• Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Faith, Retreat

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