Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Result
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Will
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge
Doubt
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strength
Man
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Society
Solitude
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature
Development
Progress
Inaction
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Society
Talk
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination
Nothing
Taste
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Action
Ignorance
Nothing
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Day
Nothing
Value
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Day
Nothing
Worth
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character
Man
Nothing
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Poetry
Superstition