Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - All theory, dear friend, is gray...

Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

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

Quote

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Note

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

Wikisource - Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil (de)

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,

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Translation

(French, German, Italian)

Grise, mon ami, est toute théorie,
Mais vert est l'arbre d'or de la vie.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Une tragédie

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Eine Tragödie

E' grigia, caro amico, qualunque teoria. Verde è l'albero d'oro della vita.”

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes for: theory:

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories.”
Carl Gustav Jung

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.”
Albert Einstein

theory

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
Albert Einstein

theory

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

theory

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Quotes for: tree:

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.”
Gérard de Nerval

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Winston Churchill

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
Henry David Thoreau

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Imaginary Invalid

tree

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

hope

The aim of living is Life itself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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