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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #more #myself #never

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#front #hardest #see #the hardest thing #thing

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#insight #nothing #terrible #without

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #happens #most #own #person

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#better #i #i am #i think #me

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#before #beside #connection #else #everything

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clearly #laughable #men #more #nothing

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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