Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Explore a curated collection of 162 quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

If I love you, what business is it of yours? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you would create something,you must be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who moves not forward, goes backward. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mi — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by th — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them ov — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 an — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything is hard before it is easy — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe