Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, til they take root in our personal experience. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
