A person hears only what they understand.
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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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