"Say oh wise man how you have come……" — Johann Gottfried Herder
"Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others."
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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16 Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
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Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be…
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away,…
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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
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Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
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A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their…
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The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe…
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Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
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Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
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To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds…
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All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
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