Top 28 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

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.

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

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

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