Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Difficult
  • Dreams
  • Start

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Think
  • Appreciate

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Enemy

• Thus the Koran, in this matter of slavery, is the enemy of mankind ... While the prescriptions by the Prophet regarding the just and humane treatment of slaves contained in the Koran are praiseworthy, there is nothing whatever in Islam that lends support to the abolition of this curse. (p. 228)

  

  Babasaheb
  • Support
  • Enemy
  • Slavery

• Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Friend

• Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Truth
  • Political
  • Freedom

• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Flame
  • Forests

• There have been a couple of times when kids that weren't nice to me in high school are like, 'Hey, man!' And I'm just like, 'Yeah. Thank you very much.'

  

  Pete Davidson
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Family
  • Wonderful
  • Growing Up

• I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enemy
  • Appreciate
  • Advantage