Quote by William Hazlitt
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conj

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Superstition
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Imagination
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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History
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

Category:
Travel

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone whos connected with it, the studios gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing thats left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. – Tom Waits

Category:
Travel

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. – Nelson A. Miles

Category:
Travel

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which theyre going to travel. – Theresa May

Category:
Travel

Random Quotes

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
Change

I dont remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. – Mark Haddon

Category:
Hope

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Men

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. – Scottish Proverb

Category:
Alcohol