"Men often act knowingly against their interest." — David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest. - David Hume

"Men often act knowingly against their interest."

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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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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