"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim." — Thomas B. Macaulay

"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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More General Quotes

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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings… — Richard Armitage
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,… — Margaret Atwood
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give… — Jane Austen
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good… — Kelly Ayotte
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted… — Charles Babbage
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap… — Antonio Banderas
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think… — Roger Bannister

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