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“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every step of life shows much caution is required.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
