Quotes by : Johann von Goethe

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life....

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

A useless life is an early death.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire....

Life's objective is life itself.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.