David Quotes

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

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

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

Everyone is a son or daughter of god.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Life is to short to be little.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.