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Biography - David Hume:

Scottish philosopher, historian and economist.
Born: 1711 - Died: 1776
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.
David Hume


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"A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace."



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Quotes for: sage


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Quotes for: sage


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Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
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From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.
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The wise man is rich
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Quotes for: prejudice


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Quotes about prejudice:


It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort - Discours sur l'influence des grands écrivains / 





A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Nelson Mandela





Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / 





Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Bertrand Russell / 






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Quotes for: judgement


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Quotes for: judgement


Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus - Handbook (Enchiridion) / 





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 / 





Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






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David Hume also said...


Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.
David Hume - Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary / 





Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





Nature is always too strong for principle.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.
David Hume / 





A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
David Hume - Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary / 







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