Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knows Quotations

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

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

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

We see only what we know.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.