"Those who pretend to know what they don't,……" — Thiruvalluvar
"Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know."
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14 Quotes by Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar has 14 quotes on this site.
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Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the…
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Real kindness seeks no return.
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How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?
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Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and…
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Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
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Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the…
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A fortress is of no use to cowards.
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Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
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Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
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The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
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The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
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Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
— Lewis Carroll
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're…
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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