Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Freedom
  • Running
  • Start

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Want
  • Information

• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Strength
  • Hardship

• Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Today
  • You

• I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Financial
  • Commitment

• We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Idea
  • German
  • Legal

• We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Possibilities

• Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Know
  • Value
  • Never

• The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Important
  • Children

• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Director
  • Tone

• I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv.

  

  Eran Riklis
  • Leadership
  • Kid
  • Decisions

• Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Money
  • Retirement

• Freedom is knowing who you really are.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Freedom
  • Knowing
  • Self-knowledge

• Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Reflection
  • Possible
  • Self-knowledge