Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer

Knowledge, Small, Cannot

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Franz Grillparzer

Person, Individual, Educated

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Important

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Franz Grillparzer

Stupid, Stupidity, Friend

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz Grillparzer

Cause, Intolerant

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer

Different, Before, Laws

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer

Wisdom, Sun, Genius

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer

Nature, Woman, Around

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer

Thought, Thoughts, Idea

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Franz Grillparzer

Someone, Made, Short

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer

Work, May, Often

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Franz Grillparzer

Character, True, Single

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Franz Grillparzer

Making, Getting, Progress

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
Franz Grillparzer

Help, Everyone, Stop

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Franz Grillparzer

Life, Work, Poetry

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer

Cannot, Progress, Surpass

Prose talks and poetry sings.
Franz Grillparzer

Poetry, Talks, Prose

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer

Art, Science, Poetry

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer

Age, Ideas, Original

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer

Women, Men, Different

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer

Home, Mother, Son

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.
Franz Grillparzer

Nothing, Arrogance, Ideas

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

Knowledge, Human, Storm

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Franz Grillparzer

Freedom, Within, Seems

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer

Find, Criticism, Test

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Poet

Born: January 15, 1791

Died: January 21, 1872

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