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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Showing: 131 - 140 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes of 208
The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
Change Quote
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Life Quote
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Funny Quote
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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