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206 quotes (Page 6 of 9 pages)Stupidity is without anxiety.
Stupidity
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
Superstition
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Talent
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Government
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Arts and Artists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The coward threatens when he is safe.
Coward and Cowardice
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Science and Scientists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Action
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
Genius
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Knowledge
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Adversity
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Heroes and Heroism
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Arts and Artists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The history of mankind is his character.
History and Historians
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Mind
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The little man is still a man.
Men
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Understanding
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happiness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The people rate strength before everything.
Strength
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Absence
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Ability
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun