Logo
Quote by Edmund Burke
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Quotations
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Wisdom
category

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, its not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, its girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it. – Elizabeth Berkley

Category:
Wisdom

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – Mary Astell

Category:
Wisdom

The wisdom of Gods Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian – who is not a daily disciple of Christ – is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be. – Pat Robertson

Category:
Wisdom

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. – Zhuang Zi

Category:
Wisdom

Random Quotes

Bad taste is a species of bad morals. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Category:
Style

Dont try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on Food Network. – Bobby Flay

Category:
Food

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. – Nathaniel Cotton

Category:
Repetition

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. – Beth Henley

Category:
sad