3 Quotes & Sayings By August Krogh

August Krogh was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, and graduated from the American School of Correspondence. He began his career as a journalist and author and later turned to writing educational textbooks. He is best known for his work The Danish Way of Learning, published in 1931. Krogh wrote over 150 books, including How to Raise Your Standard of Living (1941), How to Buy Your Own Home (1947), The Road to Success (1956), A Short History of Denmark (1959), The Little Book of Danish Life (1960), The Little Book of Life (1972), A Short History of Denmark in Pictures (1972), The Little Book of Happiness (1973) Read more

He also authored How to Be Happy in Your Own Life (1950). He is the grandfather of internationally known writer Peter Frank Krogh.

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We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced–and sometimes strongly–by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend. August Krogh
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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point. August Krogh