Men Show Their Characters In Nothing More Clearly Than In What They Think Laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How Can You Come To Know Yourself? Never By Thinking, Always By Doing. Try To Do Your Duty, And You’ll Know Right Away What You Amount To.
Nothing Is Worse Than Active Ignorance.
All Truly Wise Thoughts Have Been Thoughts Already Thousands Of Times; But To Make Them Truly Ours, We Must Think Them Over Again Honestly, Till They Take Root In Our Personal Experience.
Anecdotes And Maxims Are Rich Treasures To The Man Of The World, For He Knows How To Introduce The Former At Fit Place In Conversation.
He Only Earns His Freedom And Existence Who Daily Conquers Them Anew.
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.
When Ideas Fail, Words Come In Very Handy.
There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art; And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It Than Through Art.
So Divinely Is The World Organized That Every One Of Us, In Our Place And Time, Is In Balance With Everything Else.
There Is Nothing More Dreadful Than Imagination Without Taste.
There Is Nothing Worse Than Aggressive Stupidity.
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.
As Soon As You Trust Yourself, You Will Know How To Live.
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.
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