324 Quotes by Danish authors

Danish quotes carry a quiet confidence: modest, wry, and anchored in weathered realism. They favor understatement over flourish, valuing community, craft, and the small mercies of everyday life. From Kierkegaard’s searching doubt to Ditlevsen’s intimate clarity and Piet Hein’s playful grooks, the tone tilts toward dry humor, tender pragmatism, and a bracing sea breeze of truth. Echoes of Janteloven temper ambition with equality; candles, coffee, and long twilights warm the edges. Expect sturdy wisdom, a touch of melancholy, and surprising brightness.

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"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"Where words fail, tears can speak"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Be that self which one truly is"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

Small: Arne Jacobsen

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"Every human life is a fairy tale written by the finger of God"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

Small: H. C. Andersen

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Small: Niels Bohr

"A great artist is never poor"

Isak Dinesen, Writer

"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility"

Bille August, Director

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Small: Søren Kierkegaard

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