Franz Grillparzer Quotes

If you have something to say, especially that's different and needed, then do it.

I don't believe in holding your tongue, especially if it's something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

What you've got to say, you say.

If I could go back to before I started 'Riverdale,' I would tell myself to speak up when I felt like something wasn't right - to use my voice and know that it's worth hearing.

You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation.

If you are the best in the world, and you believe you should be fighting for a title, I think it is important to get those things out. Because a closed mouth doesn't get fed.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

We teach what we need to learn.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.