Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's best Quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August in1749. Goethe's first major scientific work was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy named the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was the best German poet, good playwright, amazing novelist, scientist, best statesman, also theatre director, and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, philosophical, and political thought from the late 18th century to the present day. His Mother's name is Catharina Elisabeth Goethe and his father's name is Johann Caspar Goethe. He died on 22 March 1832 and his age was 82 at that time.
His Notable works are
- FausThe
- Sorrows of Young
- Werther
- Wilhelm Meister's
- Apprenticeship
- Elective Affinities
- "Prometheus"
- Zur Farbenlehre
- Italienische Reise
- West–östlicher Divan
You can
easily judge
the character
of a man
by how he treats those who
can do nothing for him.
he who moves not forward
goes backward
Many people take no care of
their money
till they come nearly to the
end of it,
and others do just the same
with their time.
If you knew how rarely
we understood correctly,
you would be silent
more often.
When a person thinks deeply
and seriously, he has a bad
time in the general public.
Of all the thieves,
idiots are the most harmful.
They steal our time and mood.
Everything is
hard before it is easy.
It's better to make an approximately
correct decision than to make
a precise mistake.
What you get by achieving your
goals is not as important as what
you become by achieving your goals.
If each of us sweeps right
under our feet, the whole world
will be clean.
Remember to live!
Life is too short
to drink
bad wine
If you treat an individual
as he is,
he will remain how he is,
but if you treat him as
if he were what
he ought to be
and could be,
he will become what
he ought to
be and could be
What is not
started today is
never finished tomorrow.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Those from whom
we learn are rightly called our teachers,
but not everyone
who teaches us deserves this name.
Those who stopped loving
and making mistakes have
buried themselves alive.
The most ridiculous desire is
the desire to please everybody.
Too many parents make life hard for
their children by trying too zealously to
make it easy for them.
A good mood so rarely visits us.
What is uttered
from the heart alone
will win the heart
of others to your own
Whoever wishes
to keep a secret must hide
the fact that
he possesses one.
Everybody wants to be
somebody, but nobody
wants to grow.
who is the happiest
of men he who
values the merits
of others and in
their pleasure
takes Joy even as
though were his own
Oblivion is full of people who allow
the opinions of others to overrule their
belief in themselves.
Talent is formed in silence,
character in stormy disturbances of light.
inspiration is not a herring
pickled for many years
We all live in the past,
and through the past,
we are destroyed.
There are people
who never make mistakes
because they don't want to.
He is happiest when he is
a king or peasant who finds
peace in his home.
The beautiful
cannot be known;
it must be felt.
The architecture is frozen music.
There is no past we
can bring back
by longing for it.
There is only an eternal now
that builds and creates
out of the past
something new and better.
What we nourish blooms in the uS
This is the eternal law of nature.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Give a man
a purpose worth living
for and
he can survive in
any situation.
True greatness begins with understanding
your own insignificance.
For a man to achieve all that
is demanded of him,
he must regard himself
as greater than he is.
he who feels his own attractiveness
becomes attractive
magic is
believing in yourself
and when you succeed
everything else succeeds
To be pleased
with one's limits
is a wretched state.
Divide and conquer is a wise rule,
but unite and lead is even better.
Love is an
ideal thing
Marriage is a
real thing.
One always has time enough to apply it well.
An intelligent person
is not the one who
knows a lot,
but the one who
knows himself.
Art is the mediator
of what cannot
be said.
The best government
is that which
teaches us to
govern ourselves.
We know accurately only when we know little. With knowledge, doubt increases.
A man's manners
are a mirror in which
his portrait is
reflected. 
Our friends show us
what we can do
Our enemies teach us
what we must do.
Destiny grants us
our wishes, but in its
own way, in order to
give us something beyond
our wishes.
The intelligent man
finds almost everything
ridiculous;
the sensible man
hardly anything.
Ingratitude is a kind of weakness. Outstanding people are never ungrateful.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Do not give in too much
to feelings. An overly
sensitive heart is an
unhappy possession on
this shaky Earth.
You will go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
There is no more hopeless
slavery than the slavery of
those slaves who consider
themselves free from fetters.
According to the wife
chosen by a man, it is
easy to judge what he is
like and whether he knows
his own worth.
A character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Knowing is
not enough,
we must apply
"willing is not enough,
we must do"
Nothing shows
a man's character
more than what
he laughs at.
No one
knows what his
powers are until
he uses them.
The way you see people
is the way you treat them,
and the way you treat them
is what they become.
A person lives
a real life if he is
happy with someone
else's happiness.
As soon as you
trust yourself,
you will know
how to live.
That which means
more must never be
subordinated to that
which means less.
The greatest thing
in this world is not
so much where we stand as
in what direction
we are moving.
As per a woman
chosen by a man,
it is easy to judge
what he is and whether
he knows his price.
only he is
worthy of life and
freedom who everyday
goes to battle for it
A person who lies is immediately
spotted by his gaze A person
who has something to
hide will rarely look
at his companion straight
in the eye.
Where the light
is brighter,
the shadows are
thicker.
"There is nothing
in the world more As
it is, there is nothing
in the world more shameful
than establishing oneself
on lies and fables.
kindness is the
Golden Chain by which
society has bound together
I can tell you,
honest friend,
what I believe in:
life teaches better
than a book or orator.