Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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  • Rather
  • Million

• We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Christian
  • Going

• You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • You
  • Everything
  • Insight

• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Future
  • Today
  • Past

• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Hospital

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • People
  • You
  • Like

• I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mate

• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Books

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Trying
  • History
  • Focus

• I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• He's got a great burst. He can be running, and he doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he's got such confidence. Even though he's a shorter receiver, he's very much a downfield threat because of that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Great
  • Game

• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Friends
  • Candle
  • Foes

• There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Really
  • Crisis

• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Shame
  • Injustice

• The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Images
  • Acknowledge
  • Africa

• I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Remember
  • Son
  • inspirational

• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Passion
  • Genius
  • Judgment

• There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Immortal