Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

Comprehension follows perception.

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.

You know a guy. You know what's their best pitch. But catching it - that's different.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

People aren't hearing all the music.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.