More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"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."
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."