It seems people are drawn to utilizing foreign quotations to suggest a certain worldliness, or to appear well-read. In my opinion, there are particularly many dubious collections there," he says. Obviously, there is always a need for motivational speeches to appear educated. "A lot of them can be found in management guidebooks. Krieghofer has found false quotes everywhere: not only in the media, but also in introductions of dissertations or in speeches. "Imagine there's a war and nobody goes" is a quote that is wrongly attributed to Bertolt Brecht, pictured here in 1927 Image: picture-alliance/akg-images "Imagine there is a war, and nobody goes" is another slogan which he says originated in America but is often attributed to Brecht. "It came up in the 70s during the anti-nuclear movement, and at some point was simply attributed to Brecht," said Krieghofer. "Where right becomes wrong, resistance becomes duty" is often falsely attributed to author Bertolt Brecht, he notes. And I bet you half of them are falsely attributed," Krieghofer said. "What's new these days are photos with quotes on the internet. It has since undergone numerous revisions and updates, and it has been translated into various foreign languages. The book traced the origins of sayings and literary quotes that had become part of common speech. He gained fame for his 1864 book "Geflügelte Worte, Der Zitatenschatz des Deutschen Volkes," which loosely translates as "Winged Words, a Treasury of German Quotes." This had also kept German philologist, Georg Büchmann, busy back in the day. "False quotes have always existed, and people have always been upset about them." Krieghofer also receives a lot of information from resourceful colleagues. Their supposed quotes circulate on the net or in the media and are also often used in politicians' speeches. He has since expanded his collection to include well-known personalities from politics, culture, and science. Krieghofer has spent many years researching Karl Kraus for the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has collected over 50 false quotes attributed to Kraus alone. One doesn't have to look long on Twitter to find that Ivanka Trump also misquoted one of the great minds of the 20th century. However, the world's most frequently misquoted person is Albert Einstein, Krieghofer told DW. In the German-speaking world, this 'honor' goes to writers Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky, Karl Kraus or the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck. Krieghofer says that Lincoln, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill are some of the personalities who are often misquoted. One popular meme enjoying high circulation on Twitter features the photo of Abraham Lincoln with a warning about quotes on the internet supposedly pronounced by famous people. He is not alone in his endeavor. Across diverse European languages, internet sites are shining a light on the phenomena via listicles of false quotes, or by poking fun at them. Krieghofer has so far collected more than 500 false quotes attributed to famous personalities to verify their origins. "When the sun of culture is low, even dwarfs cast long shadows." This is one of the most famous quotes attributed to Austrian writer and satirist Karl Kraus.īut literary scholar and quote researcher Gerald Krieghofer says that it wasn't even Kraus who said it: The sentence was actually uttered by Kraus' employee.
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