Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your...

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your...

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them...

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the...

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the...

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he...

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he...

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than...

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than...

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start...

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start...

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be...

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be...

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your...

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your...

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...

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

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...