A Treatise Of Human Nature Quotes & Sayings

He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again."
"I'm not," she said ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop. — Suzanne Brockmann

In his Treatise on Human Nature, the Scots philosopher David Hume posed the issue in the following way (as rephrased in the now famous black swan problem by John Stuart Mill): No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. — David Hume

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all. — Frank McCourt

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. — Al Stewart

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition. — Astro Teller

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands. — Charles Goodnight

Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread. — Moutasem Algharati

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan. — Cecil Woodham-Smith

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one. — Jamie Kennedy