Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quotes

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• The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Lying, Speak, Egotism

  "Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals, and Things", p. 4, 1800.

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• In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Successful, Race, Temples

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• A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Names, Forever, May

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• Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, People, May

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• Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Sin, Conquer, Indolence

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• That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Mind, Contentment

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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Elephants, Shining, Awkward

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• News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ambition, Intelligent, Gossip

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• By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Knavery, Gulls, Knaves

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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• Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Truth, Lying, Speech

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• 'We only have two things to worry about......
  One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!'
  Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Two, Worry, Mouths

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• Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Thinking, Genius, Welcome

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• Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  War, Drug, Worship

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• Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Teacher, Retirement, Health

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• Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Blow, Choices, Dew

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• All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Responsibility, Color, Personal Qualities

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• Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Energy, Action, Our Lives

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• The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Book, Reading, Relief

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• Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mother, Hunger, Impatience

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Silence, Contradiction

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Silence, Physicians

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• Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Time, Retirement, Mind

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• Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Perfect, Solitude

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