Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Francois Guizot

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French statesman Francois Guizot.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848.

French - Statesman | October 4, 1787 - September 12, 1874

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Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

Francois Guizot

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Francois Guizot

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Francois Guizot

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

Francois Guizot

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Francois Guizot

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Francois Guizot

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

Francois Guizot

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

Francois Guizot

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

Francois Guizot