« All Greatest Geniuses Quotes
·
David Hume's Page
Greatest Geniuses Quotes by David Hume
1 Greatest Geniuses quote by David Hume
More Quotes by David Hume
David Hume has 225 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
-
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
-
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
-
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
-
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
-
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
-
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
-
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
-
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
-
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
-
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
-
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
See all 225 quotes by David Hume »
More Greatest Geniuses Quotes
Popular Greatest Geniuses quotes from across the collection:
-
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For…
— David Hume
-
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
— Leonardo da Vinci
-
Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their…
— Swami Vivekananda
-
If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of…
— Karen Armstrong
-
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and…
— Gustave Flaubert
-
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
-
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them…
— Charlie Chaplin
See all Greatest Geniuses Quotes »
Browse David Hume Quotes by Category