"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing……" — Franz Grillparzer
"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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