Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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