When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- 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.
- If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
- A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Best Quotes
- The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
- I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- Pay attention to your inner voice. For it needs you to analyse what you are thinking about.
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
- You cannot mix sports with politics.
- Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.