(11 quotes found)
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form”
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
“We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.”
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
“He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,”
John Knapp
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
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