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Thinks Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
- Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every…
- Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
- No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
- The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
- The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
- Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
- The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
- To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
- One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
- The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels…
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