Johann Wolfgang von fon Goethe quotes was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath Born: 08/28/1749 Died: 03/22/1832 Country: germany

• We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [fashion/desires/love/god]
• The coward threatens when he is safe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [religion/willpower/start]
• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [intellect/intellect]
• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [master]
• I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [willpower/day/night/wine]
• Doubt can only be removed by action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [action]
• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [day/speak/words]
• Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [dreams/power/men]
• Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [life]
• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [prudent/light]
• We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [knowledge]
• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [nation/time/opinion/people]
• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/ignorance/action]
• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [courage/quality/color]
• Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [light/shadow]
• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [love/behavior]
• People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people/life]
• The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [evil/decision/universe]
• The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [start/life]
• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [advantage]
• Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [wealth/courage]
• Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [willpower]
• The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [talent/happiness]
• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people/activity/evil/power]
• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/sun]
• Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [death/time/death/time]
• It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [god/men]

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