Quote by William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shake

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt

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Who God does not teach, man cannot. – Scottish Proverb

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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. – E. O. Wilson

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