Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes

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• The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by…
• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about…
• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no…
• The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise…
• If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him…
• In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on…
• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil…
• Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed;…
• First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

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