Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Wise Quotes

164 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Love Spiritual 164 quotes · page 11 of 14

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Wise

“Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.”

Looks Religion Lessons

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Wise

“A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.”

Art Firsts Sight

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“Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.”

Mother Secret

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“To act is easy; to think is hard.”

Thinking Easy

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“Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.”

Self Action Contemplation

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“Wisdom is only found in truth.”

Wisdom Found

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“Every form correctly seen is beautiful”

Beautiful Form

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“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.”

Country Teacher Teaching

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“The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.”

Eye Light Dark

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“Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.”

Men Fall Silence

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“All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.”

Color Individuality Effectiveness

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“Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.”

Life Method Earnestness

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