Logo
Quote by Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Hope
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Curiosity
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dissent
category

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. – Sydney J. Harris

Category:
Dissent

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D Eisenhower

Category:
Dissent

I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Dissent

I love opposition that has convictions. – Frederick the Great

Category:
Dissent

Random Quotes

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. – Jet Li

Category:
Education

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. Its always been the same, but its far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people. – Enrique Iglesias

Category:
Politics

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else. – John Wooden

Category:
Change

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. – David Baldacci

Category:
cool