Defects Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defects Mind Psychology Temperament
Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“The errors caused by temperament are not to be corrected, because our temperament is perfectly independent of our strength: it is not the case… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it… — Zoe McKey Copy Share Image
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Charles Francis Adams Jr Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a… — Anonymous 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
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can… — Jim Warner Copy Share Image
