William Hazlitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”

“Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.”

“There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.”

“A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.”

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”

“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”