George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - Understanding Quotes
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A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax