Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Luc de Clapiers
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
Aix
Proof
Lack
Intelligence
Ignorance
Genius
Knowledge
More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
Luc de Clapiers
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Luc de Clapiers
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
Luc de Clapiers
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Luc de Clapiers
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
Luc de Clapiers
Those who fear men like laws.
Luc de Clapiers
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
Luc de Clapiers
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
Luc de Clapiers
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
Luc de Clapiers
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
Luc de Clapiers
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Luc de Clapiers
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
Luc de Clapiers
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Luc de Clapiers
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Luc de Clapiers
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapiers
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
Luc de Clapiers