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Doubt can only be removed by action.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8

We must be young to do great things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

"Goetz of Berlichingen, with the iron hand". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act I, 1773.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John R. Williams (1999). “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy ; with the Unpublished Scenarios for the Walpurgis Night and the Urfaust”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3579, Delphi Classics

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.41, Penguin