Johnson Wang > Johnson Wang's Quotes

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
― Goethe

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Goethe

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“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.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
― Goethe

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“If you would create something,
you must be something.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
― Goethe

“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
― Goethe

“Everybody wants to be somebody,but nobody wants to grow... ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe