Quote

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

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
Memories
Loses
Interest
Also
Anything
Memory
Lose

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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
Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life's objective is life itself.
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
Before you can do something, you must first be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe