68 Quotes by Georg Brandes

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.