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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
![Humboldt Quotes By Claude Louis Berthollet: This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-claude-louis-berthollet-1849415.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Claude Louis Berthollet: This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable")
This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.
— Claude Louis Berthollet
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.
— Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond
![Humboldt Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: [Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-962482.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: [Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.")
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
![Humboldt Quotes By Charles Darwin: [Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-charles-darwin-1692588.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Charles Darwin: [Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller")
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Before being free, it is necessary to be just
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
![Humboldt Quotes By Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero: Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-jose-cipriano-de-la-luz-y-caballero-1598545.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero: Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von]")
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
— Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
![Humboldt Quotes By Thomas Jefferson: I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-thomas-jefferson-2071589.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Thomas Jefferson: I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most")
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
— Thomas Jefferson
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
— Charles Lyell
Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody.
— Andrea Wulf
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
![Humboldt Quotes By Robert G. Ingersoll: He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/humboldt-quotes-by-robert-g-ingersoll-902392.jpg "Humboldt Quotes By Robert G. Ingersoll: He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what")
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
— Alain De Botton
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
