"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but……" — Franz Grillparzer
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
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Franz Grillparzer
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45 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer has 45 quotes on this site.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an…
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble…
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those…
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you…
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid…
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be…
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to…
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone…
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do…
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
— Alan Alda
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I…
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