More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."