To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge … - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Details, Imperfect, Knowledge, Matter, Superficial

Same Author Quotes

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Enemy, Funny, Marriage, Sleep, Witty

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

Acted, Action, Acts, Imagine, Man, Men

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Appear, Disguising, Might, Ought, Pain, Trouble

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Fortune, Greatness, Know, Men, Profit, Whole

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Aims, Envy, Frenzy, Jealousy, Measure, Thinking

Similar Quotes

John Lennon

Link Wray and Gene Vincent. . . . two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

Greatest, Guitar, Rocks, Roll, Two, Vincent

Confucius

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Wise, Spiritual, People, Breath, Speak

Michael Cera

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

Episode, Seasons, Thinking, Three, Years

John Bishop

If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point is what they love, and then they bring people to them. As a comedian, you have to say something that people relate to, or nobody laughs. As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.

Character, Laughing, People, Point, Say

Hunter S. Thompson