The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
