Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by James Mackintosh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish judge James Mackintosh.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.

Scottish - Judge | October 24, 1765 - May 30, 1832

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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

James Mackintosh

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

James Mackintosh

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

James Mackintosh

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

James Mackintosh

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mackintosh

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

James Mackintosh

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

James Mackintosh

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

James Mackintosh

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

James Mackintosh

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

James Mackintosh

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

James Mackintosh

The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

James Mackintosh

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

James Mackintosh

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

James Mackintosh

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by James Mackintosh

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