William Hazlitt Quotes

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

William Hazlitt

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• The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • English
  • Language
  • Special

• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Friends
  • You
  • See

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish

• Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

  

  Phoebe Cates

• You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson

• Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • World

• To a radical Korean nationalist, the division of the nation, the race, is an intolerable state of affairs. So too is the continued presence of the foreign army that effected that division in the first place.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Army

• Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

  

  Jon Fishman
  • America

• A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Hero

• I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Washington
  • Thinker
  • Senator

• Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Writers
  • Planet
  • Ask

• The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problems
  • Thinker
  • Effectively

• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Theory
  • Converted
  • Fluent

• The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Vain
  • Thinker

• If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Play
  • Mistake
  • Notes

• No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Duty
  • Thinker
  • Conclusions

• To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

  

  William James
  • Wise
  • Neglect
  • Thinker

• To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Deal

• I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Earth

• I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Involved
  • Vans

• If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Home
  • Political
  • Mom

• Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • People
  • Helping
  • Problems

• The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinker
  • Talkers
  • Plausible