Quote by Edmund Burke
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. – Luther Burbank

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Søren Kierkegaard

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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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Our minds are lazier than our bodies. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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