Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and
More quotations from Edmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: patience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: actions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our patience will achieve more than our force. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: patience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: actions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “wisdom” The wise man will love; all others will desire. —Afranius More about this quote Tags: love wisdom desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles W. Eliot More about this quote Tags: friends wisdom books teachers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Patience is the companion of wisdom. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: patience wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: wisdom change stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. —Juvenal More about this quote Tags: wisdom nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wise man will love; all others will desire. —Afranius More about this quote Tags: love wisdom desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles W. Eliot More about this quote Tags: friends wisdom books teachers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patience is the companion of wisdom. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: patience wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: wisdom change stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. —Juvenal More about this quote Tags: wisdom nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email