All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Knowledge”

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”
“What is not fully understood is not possessed.”
“The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.”
“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”
“The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.”
“The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.”
“It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.”
“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”

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