Quote

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

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
Intended
Teaching
Teacher
Nothing
Frightful
Scholars
Scholar

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe