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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
→ To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
→ Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
→ The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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Pick the quote attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Taxation without representation is tyranny.
→ On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
→ I owe all my success in life to always having been ready a quarter of an hour before the time appointed.
→ We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Select the quotation attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
→ To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
→ A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
→ There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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One of these may be attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Which one?
→ It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
→ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
→ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
→ Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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Which one of these belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
→ What we do not understand we do not possess.
→ Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
→ Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
→ Treat people as if they are what they ought to be, and you'll help them become what they are capable of being.
→ Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
→ A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ One must be something in order to do something.
→ A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
→ Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
→ To be deprived of the person we love is happiness in comparison to living with one we hate.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Which one?
→ Trust not him that seems a saint.
→ It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
→ Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
→ It is opposition that makes us productive.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
→ A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
→ Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
→ Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
→ One must be something in order to do something.
→ We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
→ The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Looks like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the author of one of these.
→ Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
→ There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
→ The happy do not believe in miracles.
→ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
→ One must be something in order to do something.
→ A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
→ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Which one should be attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
→ Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
→ Only great minds can afford a simple style.
→ All wealth is the product of labor.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
→ Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
→ One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
→ You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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Select the quote belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
→ The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
→ I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
→ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
→ Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
→ The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
→ Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
→ Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
→ There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
→ Generosity wins favor for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
→ Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
→ If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.
→ Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Pick one.
→ To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
→ Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
→ He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
→ It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
→ You may delay, but time will not.
→ We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
→ The brain is wider than the sky.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
→ Cleverness is not wisdom.
→ United we stand, divided we fall.
→ To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
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Pick the quote attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ If I love you, what business is it of yours?
→ It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
→ Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
→ Their silence is sufficient praise.
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Select the quotation attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ He who moves not forward, goes backward.
→ To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
→ The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
→ You give your cheeks a rosy stain, With washes die your hair, but paint and washes both are vain to give a youthful air.
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One of these may be attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Which one?
→ Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
→ Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
→ Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
→ Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
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Which one of these belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ Action is easy; thought is hard.
→ A brother is a friend given by nature.
→ Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
→ Delay is preferable to error.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
→ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
→ Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
→ There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
→ Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
→ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
→ That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Which one?
→ A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
→ Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
→ The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
→ Do not allow idleness to deceive you; for while you give him today, he steals tomorrow from you.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ What we do not understand we do not possess.
→ The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
→ A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
→ The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
→ What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
→ Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
→ Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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→ In union there is strength.
→ The more one judges, the less one loves.
→ If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
→ Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
→ In charity there is no excess.
→ Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
→ Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Which one should be attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
→ As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
→ Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is merely stupid.
→ To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
→ Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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→ Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
→ It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
→ Your Task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you've built against love.
→ Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Select the quote belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
→ Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
→ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
→ A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
→ The happy do not believe in miracles.
→ A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
→ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
→ Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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