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Learning Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
- A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
- Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
- The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more…
- Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it…
- In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other…
- In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
- The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
- By seeking and blundering we learn.
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until…
- Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
- Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory…
- What we do not understand we do not possess.
- Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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