Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Wisdom

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

What is the hardest of all? That which seems easiest for your eyes: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Nothing is more frightful than ignorance in action.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

What is the hardest of all? That which seems easiest for your eyes: to see what is lying before your eyes.

A person hears only what they understand.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.