He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.


John Hume

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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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He is able who thinks he is able.
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He who laughs last thinks slowest!
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Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
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A man is literally what he thinks.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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He who speaks too much often thinks very little.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds
DAVID HUME
I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, al...
DAVID HUME
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed t...
DAVID HUME
The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; an...
DAVID HUME
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ...
DAVID HUME
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to...
DAVID HUME
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
DAVID HUME
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty
DAVID HUME
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, o...
DAVID HUME
[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
DAVID HUME
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always re...
DAVID HUME
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ...
DAVID HUME
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. So...
BRIT HUME
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should ...
DAVID HUME
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from...
DAVID HUME
We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad...
RON HUME
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME
Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME