“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) — neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.”

—  William Hazlitt

"The Indian Jugglers"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. Th…" by William Hazlitt?
William Hazlitt photo
William Hazlitt 186
English writer 1778–1830

Related quotes

Rachel Cohn photo

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must not do it.

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Whether you are in a toxic relationship, or you wish to make that ‘final decision’ which will change your life, you must not, at any cost, allow the time to pass while sitting idle.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Kenneth Griffin photo

“…my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager

Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine (Winter 2005) http://www.harvardinvestmentmagazine.org/current/griffin.htm

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Let today be the day … You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 86
Context: How would your life be different if … You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day … You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

“If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.”

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

Reinhold Niebuhr photo

“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.”

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian

Source: Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Related topics