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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Everything clever has already been thought...


Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

French
Tout ce qui est sage a été déjà pensé; il faut seulement essayer de le penser encore une fois.




See also 

See also...



All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.

All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





To do good needs no consideration.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.






People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?












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