Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Learning
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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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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.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
- Occupation: Writer
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