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William Hazlitt
(10 Apr 1778 - 18 Sep 1830)
English writer.
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Science Quotes by William Hazlitt (4)
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
— William Hazlitt
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners (1817), Vol. 2, 40.
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
'Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists', The Atlas, 15 Feb 1829.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), New Writings by William Hazlitt (2nd Ed., 1925), 117.
See also: | Acknowledge (3) | Cause (54) | Desire (14) | False (14) | Ignorance (63) | Knowledge (341) | Origin (7) | Science (463)
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
— William Hazlitt
Essay XVII. 'A New School of Reform: A Dialogue between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist', in A.R. Waller and A. Glover (eds.), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1903), Vol. 7, 188.
