A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Lack Merely Skill Treachery Tricks

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Moliere

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

Tim O'Brien

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

Tamora Pierce

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Fausto Coppi

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Mark Buchanan

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Abraham Lincoln

I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.

Michael Atiyah

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Mark Twain

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

John Stewart Bell

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Ray McGovern

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

Richard P. Feynman

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

Richard P. Feynman

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs