Knavery Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “Even knaves may be made good for something.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knavery Knaves Made May
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
As I enjoy making knick knacks out of wood, I visit my friend's workshop to craft them. — Biju Menon Copy Share Image
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. — Rushworth Kidder Copy Share Image
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I come from a family of craftsmen. We like to make things with our hands. Better than the pleasure of making money is the… — Jacques Torres Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
