Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Wisdom is only found in truth.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I seek the truth.

I have authentic wisdom to share with others.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.