William Hazlitt Quotes

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

William Hazlitt

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Random

• Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Sometimes
  • Blind

• I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Scary

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Black
  • Color

• The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Want
  • Question
  • Show

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Positive

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Like
  • Laugh

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Tax

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Children
  • Happy

• If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Strong