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Wisdom Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has…
- One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
- Willing is not enough, we must do.
- And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both…
- Wisdom is only found in truth.
- The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's…
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
- Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
- Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- The unnatural, that too is natural.
- 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…
- It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more…
- 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…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold