FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

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

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.