Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have. -
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. -
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. -
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
- Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prose talks and poetry sings.