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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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