Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

12-Jan-1729


Ireland


Philosopher

Born in 1729 in Dublin, Edmund Burke was the son of an Irish diplomat who grew up in a multicultural society. Although he was raised in the Protestant religion of his father, his mother was a Catholic, and in his youth Burke was sent to Quaker boarding school. This upbringing symbolized Burke's recent confession of religious tolerance.

QUOTES BY Edmund Burke


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]"

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