1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Children]
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Mind]
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Law and Lawyers]
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Doubt]
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Age and Aging]
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Present]
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Courage]
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Goals]
What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Teams and Teamwork]
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Change]
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Life and Living]
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Purpose]
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Knowledge]
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Present]
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Fame]
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Happiness]
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Understanding]
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Marriage]
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Action]
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Words]
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