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Wish Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
- It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
- There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
- Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his…
- Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- 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 you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
- I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
- Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
- Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
- If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a…
- The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
- The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish…
- I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
- The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
- One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and…
- My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius