Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.