Knowledge quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience."
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?"
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."
"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed"
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
"Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do."
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."