Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Understanding

• A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Ch. I., 1688.

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Strong, Men, Perfection

• 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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