Quotes by Goethe

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still."

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."

"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."

"Enjoy what you can, endure what you must."

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

"Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity."

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something."

"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."

"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."

"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

"What is not fully understood is not possessed."

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

"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."