Diffusion Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diffusion Improvement Inspirational Taste
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything.… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ...… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
