« All Knave Quotes
·
David Hume's Page
Knave Quotes by David Hume
1 Knave 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 Knave Quotes
Popular Knave quotes from across the collection:
-
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…
— Lord Chesterfield
-
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Berkeley
-
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
— Daniel Defoe
-
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
-
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
— William Shakespeare
-
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it…
— William Shakespeare
-
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
— David Hume
-
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
— Karl G. Maeser
-
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and…
— William Blake
-
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would…
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate…
— William Blake
See all Knave Quotes »
Browse David Hume Quotes by Category