Top 28 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

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