Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Wisdom
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Wisdom is only found in truth.
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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