We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe