Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 132, 1678.

• Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Grace, Understanding, Mind

• Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Mind, Atheism

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.

• It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Science, Men, Psychology

• It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Faults, Common

• We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Understanding Others

• A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Understanding, Attempting

• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

• 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

• A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Thinking

• Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Mind, Commonplace

• Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Understanding, Praise

• It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Party, Taken, Pride

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