Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Knowledge, Details, Matter

• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

• We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Knowledge, Passion, Desire

• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

• It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Knowledge, Order, Details

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