Quote #36
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
More from William Penn
- Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man.
- Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good…
- Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
- Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
- Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself- a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
- O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
- Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the wo…
- Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and end of government, therefore, government in itself is a venerab…