Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Learning
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With busy hands, and, each day, with fresh delight. But at night Love keeps me busy another way: I become half a scholar but twice as contented. And am I not learning, studying the shape Of her lovely breasts: her hips guiding my hand?
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.