Conviction Quote by Franz Grillparzer

“If we were all blinded to the larger implications of the events that were sweeping upon us it was not entirely due to the…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

— Clifton Fadiman

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

— Karl Lagerfeld

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

— Thomas Carlyle

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.”

— Donna Tartt

“Kirstein’s realization came sometime later, although he could never say exactly where or when. There is not one type of German, went the thought.…

— Robert M. Edsel

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that…

— Edward Gibbon

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

“What a sight! This infinitely proceeding division of society into the most manifold races opposed to one another by petty antipathies, uneasy consciences and…

— Christopher Hitchens

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

— Franz Mehring

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He…

— Adolf Hitler

“Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.”

— Elizabeth Loftus