Edmund Burke Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

• Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Historical, Conservative

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

  Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

• There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Believe, Men

  "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Equality, Law

  Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

• In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Past, Errors

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208

• Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Liberty, License

• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Nature, Health

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

• The grand instructor, time.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Wisdom, Instructors

  Edmund Burke (1856). “The Works of the R.H. Edmund Burke”, p.57

• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, May, Wells

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.161

• The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Mind, Stronger

  "On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord".

• The wisdom of our ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Ancestor

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.271, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Interesting, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

• Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Wisdom, Art

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