William Hazlitt Quotes
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
Hazlitt, William. "On the Ignorance of the Learned." Table-Talk, vol. 1, John Warren, 1821.
This proverb probably originated during the golden age of Islamic scholarship when the Muslim world preserved and advanced the philosophy and science of the West. Such a value would likely not be espoused today by most Muslim clerics and leaders. Some say that this change is precisely why Islam is deteriorating.
The Russian Jews in the Pale of Russia were constantly persecuted, robbed, and often physically attacked with many killed by the Cossacks. The Pale was an area of Russia that at the time, Jews had to stay within and could not move to other parts of Russia.
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.
