Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Experience is only half of experience

Experience is only half of experience

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the...

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the...

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher...

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher...

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and...

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and...

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to...

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to...

Success is more attitude then aptitude

Success is more attitude then aptitude

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

All things are only transitory.

All things are only transitory.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them...

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them...