Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ache Quotations

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.