Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • True
  • Age
  • Be True

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
  • Standing

• The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Impossible
  • Normal

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Say
  • Felt
  • Did

• You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Know
  • Play
  • Baseball

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

  

  Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • Time
  • Passion
  • Animals

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Voice
  • Moment
  • Spanish

• I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Like
  • Cute
  • Boyfriend

• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Model

• In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Sports
  • Tennis
  • States

• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  

  Alice James
  • Life
  • Intervals
  • Density

• I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Sorry

• As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Funny
  • Laugh
  • Rule

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Existence

• As our inclinations, so our opinions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Opinions
  • inclinations