Becoming Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Clever Cleverness Desire Men Vanity Wisdom
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All men do,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. — Livy Copy Share Image
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides Copy Share Image
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison — Joshua Reynolds 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
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
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