Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
Baltasar Gracian
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Baltasar Gracian
Age: 57 †
Born: 1601
Born: January 16
Died: 1658
Died: December 6
Jesuit
Philosopher
Writer
Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Sometimes
Proves
Judgment
Prove
Highest
Wise
Understanding
Understand
More quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
Baltasar Gracian
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
Baltasar Gracian
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
Baltasar Gracian
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian
We live by information, not by sight.
Baltasar Gracian
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
Baltasar Gracian
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
Fools rush in through the door for folly is always bold.
Baltasar Gracian
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
Baltasar Gracian
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.
Baltasar Gracian
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Baltasar Gracian
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Baltasar Gracian
If you are wise, live as you can if you cannot, live as you would.
Baltasar Gracian
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
Baltasar Gracian
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
Baltasar Gracian
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Baltasar Gracian
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
