Search Quotes
Search more than 36,000 Quotes by over 6,000 Authors.
Home Page
Quotes by Author
Quotes by Topic
Popular Quotes
Popular Authors
Submit a Quote
Giacomo Leopardi Quotes
Brief author info: Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) Italian poet and essayist.
Showing: 1 - 10 Giacomo Leopardi Quotes of 10
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
True misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world: because it is practical experience of the world and not philosophy that makes men hate.
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them.
Browse Page(s):
Search quotes
Life Quote
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Funny Quote
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
Humorous Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Success Quote
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
All quotations on this website are the property and copyright of their respective authors. All quotations are provided for educational and informational purposes only.
Copyright © 2011 LifeQuotesLib.com. All Rights Reserved.