Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Believe Quotations

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

The happy do not believe in miracles.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.