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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
entirely, forthwith, Frenchmen, their own language, translate
«Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attaches, attaching, attach to, curse, cursed with, development, inaction, in progress, pause, paused, pausing, progress
«Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.»
«Correction does much, but encouragement does more.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Encouragement,
Motivation
| Keywords:
correction, corrections, encouragement
«We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Respect,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
look out, only if
«Nothing is true, but that which is simple.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity,
Truth
«This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Life,
Motivational,
Persistence,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
anew, conquer, each day, earned, highest
«Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Graduation
| Keywords:
Hearts of
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affords, An example, An example of, carrying, carrying out, elevating, napoleon, sacrificing, The Absolute
«Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
transaction, transactions