Edmund Burke Quotes

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

People fall in love with their identity with their own position and are often reluctant to leave.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

Error is always talkative.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Jealous?' Luce asked. They were alone now. She threw her arms around his broad shoulders and looked deep into his violet eyes. 'Why would you be jealous?' 'Because,' he said, rubbing his hands across her back. 'Your dance card is full. For all eternity.