Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

I think perception is important.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.