9 Edmund Burke Quotes on Truth

Edmund Burke quotes on truth

4. It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.

31. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

42. The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

58. Falsehood has a perennial spring.

65. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

96. Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

153. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

168. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

171. It has always been with me, a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a great man.