Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always…

The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the…

— David Hume

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

— David Hume

There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is…

— David Hume

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

— Ken Danby

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to…

— Horatius Bonar

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should…

— John Venn

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

— Adolf Hitler

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service,…

— Percy Dearmer

“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves…

— Anonymous

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those…

— Anonymous

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think…

— Jeremy Thomas

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is…

— James Jeffrey Roche