| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
| Conversation | I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. |
| Curiosity | Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. |
| Deceit | It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. |
| Errors | 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. |
| Errors | All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. |
| Ignorance | A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. |
| Inspirational | Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
| Ireland | O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green. |
| Judgment | He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss. |
| Logic | Logic is the anatomy of thought. |
| Perspective | I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
| Psychological Subjects | New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. |
| Psychological Subjects | Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
| Punishment | If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. |
| Reason | To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. |
| Reverie | Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
| Shadows | The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. |
| Society | To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. |
| Thought | The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. |
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