Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

I have no doubt who I am.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I never want to forget that I'm not anything special.

For me personally, I just don't have anything to prove anymore. I know exactly who I am, I know that I'm intelligent and acting dumb or acting like whatever. If that's funny to me because I know it's false then so be it.

You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!