Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Quotes

#1. 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

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

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Consummated science is positively humble.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#8. 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

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

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#10. 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

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

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet