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Knowledge Quotes by William Hazlitt
- There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
- Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
- It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
- Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes…
- Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other…
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