Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote: 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]

Quote: The coward threatens when he is safe. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Doubt can only be removed by action. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: 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. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

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