German Quotes

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

The public seldom forgive twice.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.