John Dryden Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Understanding, Enthusiasm

  John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

• If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

• They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

  John Dryden

  Men, Understanding, Firsts

  1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.

• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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