William Hazlitt Quotes

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

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• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
  • Man
  • Common
  • Planned

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Inspiration

• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mistake
  • Common
  • Logic

• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Common
  • Through

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Common
  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Think
  • Language
  • Chinese

• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Voice
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Truth
  • Accept
  • Substitutes

• People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Cases

• Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Common
  • Common Sense
  • Adherence

• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • World
  • Certain

• On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Scary

• I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Horse
  • Common
  • Tradition

• Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • May
  • Free
  • Alone

• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Philosophy
  • Sense
  • Common

• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

  

  Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Dream
  • Horrible
  • Nightmare

• Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death
  • Spring
  • Winter

• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Right
  • Virtue
  • Rebel

• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  

  William Hazlitt
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