Quote #162
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More from Edmund Burke
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- If we have equity, wisdom, and justice, it will belong to this country; if we have it not, it will not belong to this country.
- If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.