FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The history of mankind is his character.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! .