661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.