Isaac Watts Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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

  Time, Understanding, Depth

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

• A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Isaac Watts, Joseph Emerson (1855). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.29

• The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Believe, Evil

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