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.

  

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

  

  Lance Ito
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• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  

  Sallust
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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Jack Welch
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• God created everything by number, weight and measure.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Weight
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• 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

• Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Measure
  • Measurable

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Pain
  • Measure

• We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

  

  Benjamin Carson
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  • Bones
  • Equipment

• Scriptures make it clear that we can drink of God’s river now, here, in this life, even if it’s only in a measure. We don’t have to wait to drink until we’ve passed on into the glorified state. Jesus said this river would flow into us, through us, and out of us to others. “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’” (John 7:38). This glorious river of the Spirit is available to each of us, and the greater our thirst, the greater our participation in this river (see Matthew 5:6). We can drink of this river now! Its source is God.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Spirit
  • Source
  • Measure

• Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

  

  Gail Dines
  • Versions
  • Pornography
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• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  

  William Osler
  • Teacher
  • Successful
  • Teaching

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Measure
  • Capacities
  • Demanded