"By seeking and blundering we learn."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on research
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"Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on science   

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on science   

"Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on science   

"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge   

"Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on skill   

"It is delivery that makes the orators success."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on speakers and speaking
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"I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on strategies   

"Before you can do something you must first be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief   

"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change
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"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character
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"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character   

"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on sympathy
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"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on talent   

"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking   

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time
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"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on truth
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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding   

"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on power
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"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wish and wishing
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"Men freely believe that which they desire."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."

Caesar, Julius on worry
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

Chaplin, Charlie on the future
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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

Covey, Stephen R. on ethics
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"Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others."

Covey, Stephen R. on feelings
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