Konrad von Gesner Quotes

“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”

“Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”

“Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.”

“Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.”

“Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.”

“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”

“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”

“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”

“A thick skin is a gift from God.”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”