Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Those who care, teach. Those who love, teach. Those who can, teach.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

We can only love what we know.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.