Approval Quote by Luc de Clapiers Download Open image “We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.” — Luc de Clapiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approval Contempt Fool Hurt Lukewarm Men
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns — Tehyi Hsieh Copy Share Image
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
These days people are mean to people just because they don't like the way they look. No-one should be hated because of their flaws. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I got this emptiness inside that got me fighting for approval because I missed out on my daddy saying, Way to Go. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image