All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Interpretation
Valuing noble qualities enriches our lives permanently.
This quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating noble qualities, such as virtue and integrity, as these values not only elevate our perspective but also become an enduring part of who we are. Recognizing and cherishing such traits provides us with lasting wisdom and strength that cannot be taken away, even in challenging times.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'Remember, to appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.'
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
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