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
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
All understanding begins in wonder!
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Why do we hear such everlasting negative talk! People all imagine they'll be giving something away if they recognize the least bit of merit.