Appearing Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearing Appearing Clever Becoming Clever Clever Prevents Cleverness Desire Desire Appearing Pretension
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
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We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now.… — Steve Marriott Copy Share Image
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
