"It is the vice of scholars to suppose……" — William Hazlitt

"It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books."

— William Hazlitt

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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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