"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil,……" — David Hume
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of…
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins…
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive…
— Albert Camus
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
— George Washington
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and…
— Louis Agassiz
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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds.…
— Theobald Smith
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An…
— Victor Hugo
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