Henry Bolingbroke quotes

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

Source : "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

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“Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

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“Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

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“Nations, like men, have their infancy.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

Source : "Letters on the Study and Use of History". Book by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Letter 4, 1752.

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“You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

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“Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.”
-- Henry Bolingbroke

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“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.”

“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”

“After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.”

“St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.”