Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Understanding

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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Understanding, Mind, Atheism

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Understanding, Understanding Others

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Grace, Understanding, Mind

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Understanding, Attempting

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Understanding, Faults, Common

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Understanding, Mind, Commonplace

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship, Understanding, Soul

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taken, Knowledge, Understanding