Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
j. c. lavater
Reasons
Seek
Wisdom
Causes
Truth
Reason
Love
Malice
Seeks
More quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Good-humor is always a success.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
