"The obscurity is more often in the passions……" — Alexander Hamilton
"The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject."
—
Alexander Hamilton
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton has 352 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
-
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious…
-
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
-
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
-
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
-
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
-
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
-
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
-
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
-
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
-
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious…
-
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
See all 352 quotes by Alexander Hamilton »
More Human Nature Quotes
This quote is filed under Human Nature Quotes,
one of 1,432 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
-
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
-
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
-
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
-
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
-
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
-
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
— Henry Adams
-
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away…
— Bernard Baruch
-
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned…
— William Bernbach
See all 1,432 Human Nature Quotes »
