Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

• Destiny

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Learning

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau

• Learning

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

• Man
• Learning

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

Paulo Coelho

• Inspirational
• Life
• Famous
• Destiny

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

• Inspirational
• Learning
• Famous

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Alanis Morissette

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Ernst Mach

• People

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

• Joy

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Franz Liszt

• Destiny

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

• Action

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

• Art

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Hippocrates

• Health

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Hippocrates

• Health

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Denzel Washington

• Learning