Weakness Quotes
2217 quotes by 1535 authors
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but…
— Nikola Tesla
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
— Claude Bernard
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like…
— Hugh Miller
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found…
— Ernst Mayr
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When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.
— John Heisman
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which…
— William Hazlitt
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Weak people cannot be sincere.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
— Edmund Burke
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
— Edmund Burke
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
— Joseph Joubert
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
— Francois Mauriac
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
— Josh Billings
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As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
— Ivan Panin
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How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term…
— Pele
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You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun…
— Zac Efron
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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
— David Hume
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None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
— H. L. Mencken
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