"Those who want to row on the ocean……" — Franz Grillparzer
"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."
—
Franz Grillparzer
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
45 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer has 45 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
-
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
-
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an…
-
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble…
-
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you…
-
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
-
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid…
-
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
-
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be…
-
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to…
-
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
-
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone…
See all 45 quotes by Franz Grillparzer »
More Course Quotes
This quote is filed under Course Quotes,
one of 7,273 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
-
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
-
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
-
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
-
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
-
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
-
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
-
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
— Kevin Bacon
See all 7,273 Course Quotes »