Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Understanding
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
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What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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