Famous Quotes / Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
7 Quotations by Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
- 1. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
- 2. A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind ...
- 3. Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
- 4. If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
- 5. If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
- 6. It is the passions that do and undo everything.
- 7. There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.