Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Quotes

• There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Practice, Theory, Distinction

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• Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Truth, Shining, Torches

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• The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Life Is

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• Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Law, Logic, Subjects

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• In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Health, Together, Body

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• Consummated science is positively humble.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Humble, Science, Positively

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• Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
  These are the sinews of good sense.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Doubt, Sober, Good Sense

  "Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book compiled by Kate Louise Roberts, www.bartleby.com. 1922.

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• A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Judgment, Denied, One Thing

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• An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Agents, Instinct

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• Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Taken, Mind, Metaphysics

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• Read much, but not many works.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Reading

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• There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Goal

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