Quote

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

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
Weiss
Nicht
Languages
Foreign
Ignorant
Language

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe