"It is harder to avoid censure than to…" — David Hume

"It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause."

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216 Quotes by David Hume

David Hume has 216 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…
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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…
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…

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More Applause Quotes

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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone… — George Matthew Adams
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms… — Ezra Taft Benson
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. — Edmund Burke
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . — Dale Carnegie
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. — Dale Carnegie
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both… — Ted Allen
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst… — Edward Gibbon
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. — Samuel Johnson
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause. — Sydney J. Harris
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Robert Montgomery

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