Quotes by Hume, David

And what is the greatest number? Number one. >>

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. >>

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for ot >>

Quotations about Genius

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by l >>

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but th >>

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, le >>

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David