More Quotes by William Penn
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Never despise what you don't understand.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.