Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
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  • Energy
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• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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  • Picture
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• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
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• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
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• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • World
  • English

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Human

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Determination
  • Drunk

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Done
  • Action

• Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.

  

  Alexander Downer
  • Police

• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Comedy

• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • May
  • Experience
  • Past

• And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Wisdom