We know what we are, but we know not what we may be. Ham., iv. 5.
We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. Goethe.
We learn to know a thing best in the place where it is native. Goethe.
We learn to know nothing but what we love; and the deeper we mean to penetrate into any matter with insight, the stronger and more vital must our love and passion be. Goethe.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than 15 from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in intellectual philosophy, that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometimes to lose his way. Smiles.
We lie down and rise up with the skeleton allotted to us for our mortal companion—the phantom of ourselves. Dickens.
We like only such actions as have long already had the praise of men, and do not perceive that anything man can do may be divinely done. Emerson.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real desire is to be tempted enough. Hare.
We like to see through others, but not that others should see through us. La Roche.
We live by admiration, hope, and love; / And 20 even as these are well and wisely fix'd, / In dignity of being we ascend. Wordsworth.