Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Foreign Countries
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• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Think
  • Making
  • Speeches

• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Juice

• How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Red
  • Blue

• When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Time
  • Black

• The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Focus
  • Moving
  • Decision

• She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Knows
  • Identity

• Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Criticism
  • Healthy
  • Public Life

• Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Happiness
  • Sacrificed

• Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Think
  • Speak

• The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

  

  Bono U2
  • Children
  • Priority
  • Entrepreneurs

• When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Lying

• It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.

  

  Faraz Jaka
  • Love
  • Wish
  • Always

• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • War
  • Media

• People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.

  

  Dawoud Bey
  • People
  • Staring
  • Viewers

• Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Best
  • Comes
  • Dictionary

• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Recognize
  • Foreign Countries
  • Human Qualities