David Hume Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.”

“No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.”

“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”

“Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.”

“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”

“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”

“Avarice, the spur of industry.”

“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”