We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
- One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
- 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.
- Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
- The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
- 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.
- When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
- I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
- What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Best Quotes
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.