Quotation by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. Try to do your duty, and you will know right away what you are like.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Wilhelm Meister's Travels, Reflections in the Spirit of the Travellers (1829).
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