A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

Quote by David Hume

Topics: Belief Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

There is no They, Only Us.

There is no They, Only Us.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to...

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to...

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In...

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates...

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

Avarice, the spur of industry

Avarice, the spur of industry

Custom is the great guide to human life

Custom is the great guide to human life

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the...

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the...

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a...

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a...

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of...

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice, the spur of industry.