David Hume Quotes

The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • Feeling
  • Small

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Women
  • Small
  • Energy

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Without justice you won't have stability.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • You
  • Justice
  • Stability

• The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Great
  • Education

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
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  • Nature
  • Girl

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Education
  • Security

• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Together

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.

  

  David Hume
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Justice