Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time
Will
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First
Self
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friends
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty
Soul
May
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
God
Children
Fashion
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Hope
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Wisdom
Day
Freedom
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Action
Thoughts
Acting
Thinking
World
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing
World
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Character
Nothing