Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Sister
  • Avoid
  • Youngest

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Man
  • Exercise
  • Stress

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Hate
  • Always

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Trouble
  • Avoid
  • Miles

• If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

  

  John Holt
  • Child
  • Force
  • Explore

• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Avoid

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Wise
  • Pleasure

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Young

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

  

  Aristotle
  • Word
  • Error
  • Wicked Man

• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowing
  • Error
  • Universal

• I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Built
  • Avoid
  • Radar

• Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Avoid
  • Compulsion

• Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is
  • Error
  • Truth Is

• It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Error
  • Self-Sacrifice

• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Relation
  • Error
  • Destroyed

• It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Bigs

• Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

  

  Steve Schirripa
  • Dad
  • Sometimes
  • Ping

• She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Books
  • Walk
  • Keys

• The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

  

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
  • Error
  • Avoid
  • Own up