A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Herbert V. Prochnow

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

Donald Phillip Verene

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his plans finds vision by seeing the needs of others finds credibility by being an example finds loyalty by expressing compassion finds honor by being faithful finds greatness by being a servant

Roy Lessin

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything. There is not one explanation. We may eventually have several theories that can tie things together nicely but there is not a single theory of everything.

Edgar Mitchell

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Herman Melville

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

John Searle

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

John Searle

Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

Epicharmus of Kos

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

Andy Adams

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

Thucydides

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