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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.

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
Real, Knowledge, Principles
"Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism, Virtue, Principal

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry Bolingbroke
Pride, Men, Dignity

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

Henry Bolingbroke
Crush, Peace, War

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

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

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
Atheism, Drs, Might

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