Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Learning

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Life Lesson, Learning

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning, Men, Understanding

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Mistake, Learning

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning, Experience, Practicals

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe, Book, Learning

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning, Literature, Knows

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Learning, Understanding

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Art, Learning

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning, Thoughtful, Growth

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”