In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. - Johann von Goethe. View more images...

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. - Johann von Goethe. View more images...

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. - Johann von Goethe. View more images...

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Von Goethe. View more images...

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. - Johann von Goethe. View more images...