Aptitude Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that…

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It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life…

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If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires…

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“My attitude is to be with one aptitude”

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Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a…

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Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse…

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Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.

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That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul…

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Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for…

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