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Proportion Quotes by David Hume
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
More Proportion Quotes
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton
- A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are… — Kobe Bryant
- I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it… — Emile M. Cioran
- But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast… — Thomas M. Disch
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee