Quote of the Moment: Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, U of Georgia

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Note from The Yale Book of Quotations, Fred R. Shapiro, ed. (Yale 2006): “Attributed in William Hutchinson Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951). Widely attributed to Goethe, following Murray, but in fact appears to be at best a paraphrase of a line from Goethe’s Faust: “Now at last let me see some deeds!”

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