Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · The source reads: “You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.” · Goethe on learning; the line before says you really only know when you know little.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Faust. The Second Part, IV, A High Mountain Range

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Proverbs in Prose

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, VII, 5

More Wisdom Quotes

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

The Bible · Proverbs 25:21–22

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)

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“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

“The deed is everything, the glory nothing.”

“Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.”

“To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“Great cases like hard cases make bad law.”