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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
  2. Live dangerously and you live right.
  3. Joy and sorrow both have part in my solitude.
  4. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his c…
  5. It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.
  6. Mathematicians are [like] a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately s…
  7. In art the best is good enough.
  8. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

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  • motivation
  • knowledge
  • productivity
  • action
  • self help
  • will

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