Quote #31
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
More from Edmund Burke
- The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
- Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
- It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord …
- And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
- Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical a…
- Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
- Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.