Logo
Quote by David Hume
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it a

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

Other quotes by David Hume

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. – David Hume

Category:
Government
Author
David Hume
Read Quote

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

Category:
Death
Author
David Hume
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory

Category:
History
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

Category:
History

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
History

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

Category:
History

Random Quotes

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. – Isabelle Eberhardt

Category:
Happiness

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
God

Love is the expression of ones values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. – Ayn Rand

Category:
Love

Yeah, I knew a lot of those guys who parachute jumped at county fairs in the twenties and thirties, I just never knew any of them for very long. – Fritz Orchard

Category:
Skydiving