Karl Ludwig von Knebel

thumb| Karl Ludwig von Knebel (30 November 1744 – 23 February 1834) was a German poet and translator. Quotes Die Vorurtheile hängen den Menschen an, wie das Moos den Bäumen. Wer sie mit Gewalt auskratzen wollte, würde dem Baume schaden. "Atheismus" in Knebel's literarischer Nachlaß und Briefwechsel, ed. K. A. Varnhagen von Ense, vol. 3 (Leipzig: Gebrüder Reichenbach, 1836) p. 489 Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917) Quotes reported in C. N. Douglas, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917) He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact. True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself. External links Category:1744 births Category:1834 deaths Category:Poets from Germany Category:Translators from Germany