Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Education

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The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by

The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Truth, School

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Science, Medicine

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Mistake, Learning

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Hate, Activity

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Children, Insanity

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.78

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Teaching, Useless

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Students, Prudence

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Education, Teacher

"Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Wisdom, Learning

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Knowledge, Doubt

"Sprüche in Prosa". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 419-423, 1922.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Learning, Study

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.78, Ravenio Books

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, People, Should