More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."