Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quotes

• 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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• Los indolentes, por mucho gusto que tengan por la sociedad, buscan afanosamente el placer y no encuentran nada. Tienen la cabeza vacía y el corazón abrasado.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, People, May

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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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• Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Sin, Conquer, Indolence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• La meditación profunda en la soledad y el silencio exalta con frecuencia la mente por encima de su tono natural, enciende la imaginación, produce las concepciones más refinadas y sublimes. El alma saborea entonces el deleite más puro y refinado, y casi pierde la idea de la existencia en el placer intelectual que recibe. La mente en cada movimiento se lanza a través del espacio hacia la eternidad; y elevada, en su libre disfrute de sus poderes por su propio entusiasmo, se fortalece en el hábito de contemplar los temas más nobles, y de adoptar las búsquedas más heroicas.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Hate, Hatred, Affection

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• Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mother, Hunger, Impatience

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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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• Todas nuestras distinciones son accidentales; la belleza y la deformidad, aunque son cualidades personales, no tienen derecho ni a la alabanza ni a la censura; sin embargo, sucede que colorean nuestra opinión de aquellas cualidades a las que la humanidad ha atribuido responsabilidad.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Responsibility, Color, Personal Qualities

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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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• 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

  Lectura, Libro, Hombres

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• Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Sloth, Faculty, Insensible

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• We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Hands, Ideas

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Gains

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