Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers

Quote by William Penn

Topics: Reason Quotes, Truth Quotes

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders...

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders...

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously,...

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously,...

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the...

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the...

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than...

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than...

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals...

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals...

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is...

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is...

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of...

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of...

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made...

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made...

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if...

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if...

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is...

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is...

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House...

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House...