For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay...

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay...

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right...

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right...

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned...

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned...

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I...

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I...

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's...

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's...

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to...

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...