126 Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on intelligence

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on knowledge

Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on knowledge

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on knowledge

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on life

Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love

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 on love

Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love