Franz Grillparzer Quotes

I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they’re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.