FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Patriotism ruins history.

Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.

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

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.