Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Kids
  • Learn
  • Students

• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Truth
  • You
  • Measure

• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  

  Sallust
  • Bad
  • Measure
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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Measure

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Make
  • Measure
  • Measurable

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Offer
  • Capacities

• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Important
  • Value
  • Suicide

• I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Hope

• Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Belief
  • Measure
  • Correspond

• God created everything by number, weight and measure.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Weight
  • Measure

• Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Money
  • Wealth
  • Use

• Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Measure
  • Number

• It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Money
  • Gift
  • Measure

• The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Live
  • Measure
  • Irregulary

• There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Difficult
  • Emotion
  • Measure

• His method for taking the measure of a room was saying something definitive and outrageous—“These charts are bullshit!” or “This deal is crap!”—and watching people react. If you were brave enough to come back at him, he often respected it—poking at you, then registering your response, was his way of deducing what you thought and whether you had the guts to champion it.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Champion
  • Deal
  • Response

• We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Responsible
  • Racist
  • Examine

• We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Style
  • Footwork
  • Tap-dancer

• For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Past
  • Facts
  • Socialism

• To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Measure
  • Capacities
  • Demanded