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Knows Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
- Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly…
- He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
- Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
- Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what…
- Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the…
- The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are."…
- No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
- At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
- A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
- One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
- A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
- The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
- Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
- The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
- The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
- What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men…
- A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
- A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with…
- There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily…
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- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
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