Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.
Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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.
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.