Quotes
Quotes
Lines worth keeping — a quiet shelf to return to.
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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.”
— Goethe
“The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.””
— Goethe
“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.”
— Goethe
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
— Goethe
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
— Goethe
“The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.”
— Goethe
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
— Goethe
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
— Goethe
“Everybody wants to be somebody,but nobody wants to grow...”
— Goethe
“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.”
— Goethe
“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”
— Goethe
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
— Goethe
“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”
— Goethe
“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”
— Goethe
“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”
— Goethe
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”
— Goethe
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
— Goethe
“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
— Goethe
“If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.”
— Goethe
“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
— Goethe
“Everything is hard before it is easy”
— Goethe
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
— Goethe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love”
— Goethe
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
— Goethe
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength”
— Goethe
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
— Goethe
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
— Goethe
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
— Goethe
“knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough,we must do..”
— Goethe
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
— Goethe
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
— Goethe
“A person hears only what they understand”
— Goethe
“By seeking and blundering we learn”
— Goethe
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
— Goethe
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
— Goethe
“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
— Goethe
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
— Goethe
“If you've never eaten while crying you dont know what life tastes like.”
— Goethe
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
— Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Goethe
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
— Goethe
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
— Goethe
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”
— Goethe
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
— Goethe