Nazareth Quotes
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
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The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.
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..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.
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If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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I started a band in 1961 that eventually became Nazareth later on along the way. I have always been in the band and it is a way of life. I have a great and exciting job.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.