Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Understood Quotations

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.