Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Knowledge
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Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
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Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What one knows, one sees.