“You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 281 (translation by Elisabeth Stopp)

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“When we lack ourselves, we lack everything.”

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.”

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

“Be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord and shun evil.”

“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”

“I never "worry" about action, but only about inaction.”

“The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear.”

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”