I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
– Umberto Eco
Related Quotes:
- When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly. – Confucius
- Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time. – Anne Gracie
- Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. – Umberto Eco
- We live for books. – Umberto Eco
- I love the smell of book ink in the morning. – Umberto Eco
- The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. – Umberto Eco
- Yes, I know, it’s not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. – Umberto Eco
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- Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. – Umberto Eco
- But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn’t believe in it? – Umberto Eco
- Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco
- How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon! – Umberto Eco
- There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. – Umberto Eco
- There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. – Umberto Eco
- What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves? – Umberto Eco
- He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. – Umberto Eco
- And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts? – Umberto Eco
- The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoonthat is better than a spoon – Umberto Eco
- the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved – Umberto Eco
- The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. – Umberto Eco
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- Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. – Umberto Eco
- … luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. – Umberto Eco
- The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. – Umberto Eco
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- After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? – Umberto Eco
- When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them. – Marty Rubin
- Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Great men learn from their weaknesses,and learn to use their strengths.Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses,and underuse their strengths. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. – James Baldwin
- I wouldn’t want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I’d like it if he could be wicked and wouldn’t. – LM Montgomery
- Down is up, up is down. Good is Wicked, Wicked is Good. The times are changing. This is what Oz has come to. – Danielle Paige
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- I near felt bad he choose to be so evil to me. I am a forgiving woman, but my pen… oh my wicked wicked hormonal she-pen. – Coco J Ginger
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- Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. – Oswald Chambers
- What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners. – Nadia BolzWeber
- I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
- If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up. – Auliq Ice
- Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered. – Sunday Adelaja