There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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