FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

In art the best is good enough.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Doubt grows with knowledge.