Common Quote by Julian Casablancas Download Open image “Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.” — Julian Casablancas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common sense Vanity Wisdom
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
So when's it coming? This life's new great movement that I can join — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image