Isaac Watts Famous Quotes



"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther."

"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."


Isaac Watts Quotations






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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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