Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I call architecture frozen music.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Precaution is better than cure.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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