Top 100 Konrad's Quotes
#1. What do you make of him?" I asked Elizabeth.
"Apart from the fact he's clearly insane?"
"What can he learn from Konrad's blood?" I said. "Except that he needs it in his body to live!"
"There is something ghoulish about it."
"He's like a vampyre,
Kenneth Oppel
#2. Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
Konrad Lorenz
#3. I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
#4. The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#5. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
#6. I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth."
"The earth sometimes shifts.
Kenneth Oppel
#7. You have to take people as they are because there are no others.
Konrad Adenauer
#8. The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer
#9. It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
#10. Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
#12. In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#13. The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
Konrad Lorenz
#14. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.
Konrad Lorenz
#15. The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#16. We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Konrad Lorenz
#19. A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.
Konrad Lorenz
#20. But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?
Konrad Lorenz
#21. The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.
Konrad Lorenz
#22. Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, ... thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth-a time when we didn't know fear ... Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.
Konrad Adenauer
#23. There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.
Jacob Bronowski
#24. All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.
Konrad Adenauer
#25. We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
George Konrad
#26. Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.
Konrad Lorenz
#27. In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
Konrad Lorenz
#28. Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.
Kenneth Oppel
#29. To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.
Konrad Adenauer
#30. Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.
Konrad Weiss
#31. 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
Konrad Lorenz
#32. The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
Konrad Lorenz
#33. You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
Kenneth Oppel
#34. There are things about which I don't even talk to myself.
Konrad Adenauer
#35. Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz
#36. 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.
Konrad Von Gesner
#37. The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.
Konrad Lorenz
#39. God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.
Konrad Adenauer
#40. 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.
George Konrad
#41. History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer
#42. I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Konrad Lorenz
#43. When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.
Konrad Adenauer
#44. Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.
Konrad
#45. We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
Konrad Adenauer
#46. The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
Konrad Adenauer
#47. Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Konrad Lorenz
#48. I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.
Konrad Zuse
#49. The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
Konrad Lorenz
#50. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#51. The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#52. Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Konrad Lorenz
#53. Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.
Konrad Lorenz
#54. The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.
Konrad Zuse
#55. Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz
#56. Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
Konrad Lorenz
#57. The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!
Konrad Zuse
#58. Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.
Konrad Lorenz
#59. Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
Konrad Lorenz
#60. Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.
Konrad
#62. More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Konrad Lorenz
#63. I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad
#64. So you are the scribes that nobody and everybody is talking about," Konrad said.
"I don't know about that," Malachi said. "I'm not much for gossip."
"Oh, we eminent politicians don't call it gossip, Malachi. We call it 'intelligence.
Elizabeth Hunter
#65. I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.
Konrad Lorenz
#66. Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.
Gyorgy Konrad
#68. Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad Lorenz
#69. Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
Konrad Lorenz
#70. The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.
Konrad Lorenz
#71. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#73. There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
Konrad Lorenz
#74. I had just climbed on top of the counter when Konrad reached over me and grabbed the bowls, smirking when I glared at him. He didn't even have to go on the balls of his feet. "Damn tall people." I muttered under my breath. "Hey
Molly McAdams
#75. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.
Gerhard Richter
#77. It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
Konrad Zuse
#78. All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
Konrad Lorenz
#80. All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
#81. Give me a sword and I will slay a man, give me a voice and I will slay a country.
Konrad
#82. Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.
Konrad Heiden
#83. He who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.
Konrad Lorenz
#84. Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Konrad Lorenz
#85. It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.
Konrad Lorenz
#86. The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.
Konrad Lorenz
#88. The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
Konrad Zuse
#89. In the almost film-like flitting-by of modern life, a man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself, and nothing can give him this assurance in so comforting a manner as the "four feet trotting behind".
Konrad Lorenz
#90. All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
Konrad Lorenz
#91. When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.
Konrad Adenauer
#92. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#93. All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.
Konrad Adenauer
#94. The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.
Konrad Lorenz
#95. Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Konrad Lorenz
#96. The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
Konrad Adenauer
#97. Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing
Konrad Lorenz
#98. Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
Konrad Lorenz
#99. First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
Konrad Adenauer
#100. The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
Konrad Lorenz
