“Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines.”
Discussions on Philosophy, Title Page, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 818-22.
William Hamilton bol škótsky filozof a logik , predstaviteľ mladšej škótskej školy. Poznanie chápal ako odhaľovanie podmienok existencie poznávaného predmetu. Wikipedia
“Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines.”
Discussions on Philosophy, Title Page, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 818-22.
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic: "6th Lecture on Metaphysics", p. 69, ed. 1871, Boston; partly reported in Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. (1903), p. 34
As quoted by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 573.
“Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.”
Notes on Reid, from the Fragments of Epicharmus, 255.
The History of Medicine, Surgery, and Anatomy, from the Creation of the World, to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century (1831), Vol. 1
The History of Medicine, Surgery, and Anatomy, from the Creation of the World, to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century (1831), Vol. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ajBFAQAAMAAJ