Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

• Heart
• Happiness

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Plato

• Knowledge

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

• Knowledge
• Faith

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

• Knowledge
• Mystery

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

• Life
• Freedom

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Knowledge
• Learning

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

• Power

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

• Knowledge

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

• Knowledge
• Desire

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Chuang Tzu

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali

• Society

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

Orlando Bloom

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

• Heart
• Life

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

• Knowledge
• Beginning

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Jean Racine

I am at heart a gentleman.

Marlene Dietrich

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Sylvester Stallone