Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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