"The sweetest path of life leads through the……" — David Hume
"The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind."
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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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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear,…
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing…
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness…
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Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on…
— Carl Jung
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of…
— E. O. Wilson
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The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating…
— Bruce Lee
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow.…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made,…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one…
— George Barr McCutcheon
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of…
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