When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
-
-
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH