German Quotes

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.