Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

19 Famous Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
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“Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.”
Intuition Quotes
“He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed”
Observation Quotes
“He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots”
Reform Quotes
“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
Laughter Quotes
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
Jealousy Quotes
“There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.”
Men Quotes
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
Secrets Quotes
“He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.”
Want Quotes
“Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.”
Agreement Quotes
“Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.”
Extremes Quotes
“Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.”
Gravity Quotes
“There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.”
Men and women Quotes
“He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.”
Observation Quotes
“He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.”
Order Quotes
“He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.”
Passion Quotes
“Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.”
Pretension Quotes
“I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.”
Question Quotes
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
Secrecy Quotes