We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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