William Hazlitt Quote

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.


No. 132. - Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)


No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and...

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and...

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and...

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and...