FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

A person hears only what they understand.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Beauty is everywhere a very welcome guest.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.