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title: "70 Hume Quotes by 57 authors"
description: "Browse 70 Hume quotes by 57 authors. Discover the best Hume sayings and thoughts."
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> [“To question reason is to trust it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-stokes/to-question-reason-is-to-trust-it/)

[Mitch Stokes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-stokes/)

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> [Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/rousseau-was-mad-but-influential-hume-was-sane-but-had-no-followers/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“And I don't give a cow's dick what Hume said, science rules!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/and-i-don-t-give-a-cow-s-dick-what-hume-said-science-rules/)

[Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/)

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> [“Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/reason-is-and-ought-to-be-as-hume-said-the-slave-of-the-passions/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/in-every-page-of-david-hume-there-is-more-to-be-learned-than-from/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-say/the-theory-of-interest-was-wrapped-in-utter-obscurity-until-hume-and/)

[Jean-Baptiste Say](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-say/)

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> [“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-weiner/reason-hume-argued-doesn-t-determine-what-we-want-but-only-how-we/)

[Eric Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-weiner/)

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> [Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna YeH Hum Nahi Jaante.. Magar jee Nahi Sakte Tumhare Bina..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dabbang-damsel/hume-tumse-pyaar-kitna-yeh-hum-nahi-jaante-magar-jee-nahi-sakte/)

[Dabbang Damsel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dabbang-damsel/)

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> [S O C H A tha ki wo bahot T O O T kar chahegi hume.. L E K I N.., C…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/unkown/s-o-c-h-a-tha-ki-wo-bahot-t-o-o-t-kar-chahegi-hume-l-e-k-i-n-c-h-a-h/)

[Unkown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/unkown/)

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> [Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/even-david-hume-one-of-history-most-famous-skeptics-said-it-s-just/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/democrats-all-claim-they-ll-get-rough-with-the-terrorists-but-they/)

[Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/)

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> [I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-antoinette/i-have-begun-the-history-of-england-by-mr-hume-it-seems-to-me-very/)

[Marie Antoinette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-antoinette/)

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> [“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/i-have-always-considered-david-hume-as-approaching-as-nearly-the-idea/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/i-question-if-epicurus-and-hume-have-done-mankind-a-greater-service/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/there-is-more-to-be-learnt-from-every-page-of-david-hume-than-from/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-fact-i-think-it-was-the-philosopher-hume-who-argued-that-it-s-far/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/as-the-capacity-to-coerce-declines-it-is-natural-to-turn-to-control/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/a-philosophy-professor-at-my-college-whose-baby-became-enamored-of/)

[Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/)

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> [Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/berkeley-hume-kant-fichte-hegel-james-bergson-all-are-united-in-one/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/generations-of-humeans-have-been-misled-into-offering-analyses-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/if-we-take-in-our-hand-any-volume-of-divinity-or-school-metaphysics/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/however-inadequate-our-ideas-of-causal-efficacy-may-be-we-are-less/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/no-true-geologist-holds-by-the-development-hypothesis-it-has-been/)

[Hugh Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-miller/)

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> [I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/i-had-no-idea-what-philosophy-was-until-i-went-to-college-at-ubc-i/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

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> [“David Hume, the great­est skep­tic of them all, once remarked that after a gath­er­ing of skep­tics met to pro­claim the verac­i­ty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/david-hume-the-great-est-skep-tic-of-them-all-once-remarked-that/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

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> [An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/an-atheist-before-darwin-could-have-said-following-hume-i-have-no/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> ["We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-sacred-and-undeniable-in-a-draft-of-the/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-franklin-s-edit-to-the/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-bernstein/in-the-history-of-philosophy-the-term-rationalism-has-two-distinct/)

[Andrew Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-bernstein/)

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> [“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/as-a-rule-theologians-know-nothing-of-this-world-and-far-less-of-the/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/certainly-the-anonymous-scarecrow-portrait-was-intended-to-put-him-in/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-weininger/hume-huxley-and-other-immanent-psychologists-tried-to-identify-the/)

[Otto Weininger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-weininger/)

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> [ “\[On David Hume\] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/on-david-hume-although-he-never-admitted-to-being-an-atheist-as-such/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

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> [No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-dilthey/no-real-blood-flows-in-the-veins-of-the-knowing-subject-constructed/)

[Wilhelm Dilthey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-dilthey/)

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> [Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-robbins-baron-robbins/hume-develops-his-arguments-by-a-series-of-models-he-doesn-t-call/)

[Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-robbins-baron-robbins/)

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> [The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/the-first-cause-and-prime-mover-argument-brilliantly-proffered-by-st/)

[Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/)

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> [ And where else will \[Hume,\] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/and-where-else-will-hume-this-degenerate-son-of-science-this-traitor/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-smith/bishop-berkeley-destroyed-this-world-in-one-volume-octavo-and-nothing/)

[Sydney Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-smith/)

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> [Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-percy-whipple/nature-and-society-are-so-replete-with-startling-contrasts-that-wit/)

[Edwin Percy Whipple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-percy-whipple/)

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> [I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-think-it-was-david-hume-who-put-it-slightly-vulgarly-this-was-again/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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                        "text": "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.",
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                        "text": "“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven’t it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.”",
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                        "text": "No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.",
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                        "text": "I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.",
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                        "text": "“David Hume, the great­est skep­tic of them all, once remarked that after a gath­er­ing of skep­tics met to pro­claim the verac­i­ty of skep­ti­cism as a phi­los­o­phy, all of the mem­bers of the gath­er­ing nonethe­less left by the door rather than the win­dow. I see Hume’s point. It was all just talk. The solemn philoso­phers weren’t tak­ing what they said seri­ous­ly.”",
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                        "text": "An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.",
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                        "text": "\"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable\" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as \"Hume's Fork\" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.",
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                        "text": "“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned thought in contrast to any irrationalist rejection of the mind. In this sense, Aristotle and Ayn Rand are preeminent rationalists, opposed to any form of unreason, including faith. In a narrower sense, however, rationalism contrasts with empiricism as regards the false dichotomy between commitment to so-called “pure” reason (i.e., reason detached from perceptual reality) and an exclusive reliance on sense experience (i.e., observation without inference therefrom). Rationalism, in this sense, is a commitment to reason construed as logical deduction from non-observational starting points, and a distrust of sense experience (e.g., the method of Descartes). Empiricism, according to this mistaken dichotomy, is a belief that sense experience provides factual knowledge, but any inference beyond observation is a mere manipulation of words or verbal symbols (e.g., the approach of Hume ). Both Aristotle and Ayn Rand reject such a false dichotomy between reason and sense experience; neither are rationalists in this narrow sense. Theology is the purest expression of rationalism in the sense of proceeding by logical deduction from premises ungrounded in observable fact—deduction without reference to reality. The so-called “thinking” involved here is purely formal, observationally baseless, devoid of facts, cut off from reality. Thomas Aquinas, for example, was history’s foremost expert regarding the field of “angelology.” No one could match his “knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.”",
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                        "text": "“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the Voltaires , Humes , Paines , Humboldts , Tyndalls, Haeckels , Darwins , Spencers , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason.”",
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                        "text": "“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David Hume was said to have dismissed Williams’s accomplishments by comparing the admiration people had for him to the praise they might give “a parrot who speaks a few words plainly.” It is clear, then, that in eighteenth-century Britain there were Britons, like the painter Gainsborough, who were ready to accord respect to an African, even an African who was a servant; and there were other Britons, like the anonymous painter of Francis Williams, or the eminent philosopher Hume, who would sneer at a black man’s achievement. And it was not so much a question of the times in which they lived as the kind of people they were. It was the same in the times of Joseph Conrad a century later, and it is the same today!”",
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                        "text": "“Hume, Huxley, and other \"immanent \" psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical and psychological thought. In doing this they ignored the power of making judgments. In every judgment there is an act of verification or of contradiction, an approval or rejection, and the standard for these judgments, the idea of truth, must be something external to that on what it is acting. If there are nothing but perceptions, then all perceptions must have an equal validity, and there can be no standard by which to form a real world. Empiricism in this fashion really destroys the reality of experience, and what is called positivism is no more than nihilism. The idea of a standard of truth, the idea of truth, cannot lie in experience. In every judgment this idea of the existence of truth is implicit. The claim to real knowledge depends on this capacity to judge, involves the conception of the possibility of truth in the judgment.”",
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