Discovering Quote by David Hume Download Open image “History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovering History Human nature Humans Nature Nature of man Principles
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past gives rise to the continuity of history. Our convictions, opinions, prejudices, intellectual tastes; our knowledge, our methods of learning and of applying for information we owe, with slight exceptions, to the past-often to the remote past.… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of stressed out people in the company as we were discovering how dangerous the DeSoto Solar Farm was!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take.… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
