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Quotations By Johann Von Goethe


Beliefs
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Caution
Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Culture
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Desire
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Intelligence
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pride
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Progress
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Rest
On every mountain height is rest.

Taste
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Time
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Wealth
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe