All knowledge degenerates into probability
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books
Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man
Explanation is where the mind rests
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it, this is knowledge
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure
if you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. if they don't, they never were
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things
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