Edmund Burke Quotes

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.