No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. …

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less …

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still r…

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospec…

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those…

- Wilhelm Von Humboldt