Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
- When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
- More light! Give me more light!
- If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
- Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
- Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
- A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Best Quotes
- My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
- Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
- There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
- Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.