Avoiding Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoiding Character Ethics Faults Integrity People Repent Virtue
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“What I'm trying to say is that I spent the last four months learning to be alone, avoiding the world, hating pretty much anyone… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils… — Raymond Briggs Copy Share Image
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When someone starts Ignoring you, just back off without staying there with them Just to know the reason for avoiding.. — Vishak Copy Share Image
![“I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to…” quote by Anders Fogh Rasmussen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d8/anders-fogh-rasmussen-21056_acknowledgement_i-can-hardly-believe-what-these-12-caric_14933.jpg)
