Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sound, World, Pearls

• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

• It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Speak, Judgment

• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Silence, Judgment, Silent

• It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Tongue, Speak

  "Of Society and of Conversation". "The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère", newly rendered into English by Henri Van Laun, www.bartleby.com. 1885.

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Perfection, Understanding

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