“To know where a thing is we must have found it.”
Source: Goethe's poems and aphorisms
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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”
Source: The Essential Goethe
“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Source: Faust/Bilingual
Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
Source: Faust
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.”
Source: Conversations and encounters
Source: Goethe on Art
Source: Faust
“If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”
Source: The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
“He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel
“How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.”
“One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.”
“How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!”