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Their Own Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
- Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
- Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz…
- Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
- It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess…
- If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the…
- Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
- With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
- Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
- Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
- To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own…
- The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
- Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my…
- People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and…
- To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves,…
- 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…
More Their Own Quotes
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- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu