Quote by Franz Grillparzer
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. - Fra

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

Other quotes by Franz Grillparzer

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

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Poetry
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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. – Franz Grillparzer

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Trust
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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

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Knowledge
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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Ridicule

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ridicule

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

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Ridicule

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Ridicule

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May you get what you wish for. – Old Chinese curse

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. – Eartha Kitt

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