A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Joan D. Chittister

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Douglas Portway

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

Dogen

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Walter Savage Landor

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Guy Debord

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

Philip Sidney

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Tom Krause

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.