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.
More Quotes from William Penn:
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.William Penn
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.
William Penn
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Arguments QuotesBased on Keywords: coolness, defenders, opposers
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
Umberto Guidoni