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QUOTES including the word: "weakness"

Skinner:
  • We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

  • Kunanbaev:
  • Modesty, arising from weakness, is not dignified.

  • Xenophon:
  • Men often fail to understand their own weaknesses, and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.

  • William James:
  • Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

  • Valery Paul:
  • Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

  • Tennessee Williams:
  • can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

  • Sartre:
  • Every existing being is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  • Voltaire:
  • We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • "Weakness" is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes