Quote

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

William Penn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Enquiry
Ground
Lost
Truth
Never

More quotes by William Penn

Image
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn
Image
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
William Penn
Image
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
William Penn
Image
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
William Penn
Image
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
Image
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
William Penn
Image
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn
Image
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
William Penn
Image
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
William Penn
Image
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
Image
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
William Penn
Image
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
William Penn
Image
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
William Penn
Image
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
William Penn
Image
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
William Penn
Image
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn
Image
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
William Penn
Image
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn
Image
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
William Penn
Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
William Penn