Edmund Burke Quotes About Wisdom
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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.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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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.
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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.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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The grand instructor, time.
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In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
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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.
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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.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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