Author Topic: ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes ~ (Read 7449 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** December 19, 2014, 07:36:10 AM »

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** December 19, 2014, 07:36:57 AM »

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** December 19, 2014, 07:37:38 AM »

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** December 19, 2014, 07:38:21 AM »

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** December 19, 2014, 07:42:15 AM »

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:53:00 AM »

Everything has been thought of before but the difficulty is to think of it again.

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:53:52 AM »

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:54:52 AM »

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:56:54 AM »

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:58:00 AM »

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:00:09 AM »

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:01:19 AM »

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:02:30 AM »

What you can do or dream you can do begin it; boldness has genius power and magic in it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:03:29 AM »

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous the sensible man hardly anything.

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:04:31 AM »

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.

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