"But one must know where one stands,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
More on Self Awareness
“IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.”
“Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.”
“When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.”
More on Understanding
“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.”
“You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”
“Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself”