"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they ...

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Wisdom is found only in truth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
"All things are only transitory.
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
"Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it ...
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
"Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.