Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

We can only love what we know.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

The wise are wise only because they love.

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

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.

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

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

I want to be kissed by the people I love.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people understood about the rings of Saturn; I just think he finds physics extremely interesting. It brings him joy, and he wants to spread the love. I feel the same about economics.