Quote

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Littles
Little
Accurately
Doubted
Increases
Increase
Doubt
Education
Knowledge

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Let us live, while we are alive!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To have more, you must first be more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe