A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hope and joy are true wealth; fear and sorrow are true poverty.
- In plain terms
- Being hopeful and joyful makes you rich; fearing and sorrowing makes you poor.
- What can you take from it?
- Hope is wealth; fear is poverty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes you rich?
- How do you view fear?
Another view
Material wealth matters too.
More from David Hume
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may eve…
Permalink to quote #56 It was a fixed maxim in this reign, as well as in some of the subsequent, that no native of the island should ever be advanced to any dignity, ecclesiastical, …
Permalink to quote #58 All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinatio…
Permalink to quote #55
Related quotes
It may be we shall know in the hereafter Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears, And why the world's too beautiful for laughter, Too gross for tears.
Percy AddleshawPercy Addleshaw quote #3 Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
Rollo MayRollo May quote #12 Grim-visaged comfortless Despair.
Thomas GrayThomas Gray quote #15