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Knowledge Quotes by David Hume
- All knowledge degenerates into probability.
- All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to…
- It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend…
- We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that…
- What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and…
- There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
- ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
- Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making…
- Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,…
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