We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAnd all must follow in my wake.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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