A Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Former Honesty Knaves Mimic Those Worst

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Johann Kaspar Lavater
German - Theologian
November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

Franklin Pierce

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.

Thomas Otway

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

Mary Gaitskill

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Alexander Pope

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

James Cook

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Esther Hicks

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger Dijkstra

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan?tum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Jane Smiley

The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.

Genndy Tartakovsky

The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.

Henry Giroux

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Noam Chomsky

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Patricia Highsmith

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