12 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Knowledge

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on knowledge

10. Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt

57. One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

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

87. Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

88. Doubt grows with knowledge.

89. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

93. Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.

100. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

110. Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.

122. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

129. Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.

149. What one knows, one sees.