“Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.”
Original German text: "Zweifle nicht an dem der dir sagt er hat Angst, aber hab Angst vor dem der dir sagt, er kennt keinen Zweifel."
from "100 Gedichte ohne Vaterland", pub. 1978.
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Erich Fried 2
Austrian writer 1921–1988Related quotes

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him please to give up painting.”
spoken to Claude Monet about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874), as quoted by John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, Vol.1 (1961).
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Writing for a Hundred Years Hence
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

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