Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
22 quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Topics: Education, Famous Quotes, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Wisdom.
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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
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“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
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“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
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“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”
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“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
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“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
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“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
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“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
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“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
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“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
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“Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
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“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
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“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
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“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”