"The close and thoughtful observer more and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.”
“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.”
“Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.”
More on Knowledge
“I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.”
“We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”