Quote

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Isaac Watts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
Drawn
Observation
General
Knowledge
Become
Indisputable
Certain
Particulars
Many
Observations
Jewels

More quotes by Isaac Watts

Image
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Isaac Watts
Image
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Isaac Watts
Image
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
Isaac Watts
Image
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Isaac Watts
Image
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Isaac Watts
Image
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
Isaac Watts
Image
To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
Isaac Watts
Image
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
Isaac Watts
Image
The passions are the gales of life and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
Isaac Watts
Image
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Isaac Watts
Image
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Isaac Watts
Image
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
Isaac Watts
Image
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
Isaac Watts
Image
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
Isaac Watts
Image
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
Isaac Watts
Image
From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise ariseLet the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
Isaac Watts
Image
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Isaac Watts
Image
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
Image
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
Isaac Watts
Image
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Isaac Watts