John of Salisbury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
-- John of Salisbury

#Soul #Body #Way
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
-- John of Salisbury

#Inquiry #Hardship #Fruit
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
-- John of Salisbury

#Sight #Giants #Add
Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.
-- John of Salisbury

#Eye #Might #Cloaks
Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
-- John of Salisbury

#Filth #Logic #Everlasting
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
-- John of Salisbury

#Men #Virtue #Proportion
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."
-- John of Salisbury

#Art #Writing #Giving
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
-- John of Salisbury

#Reading #Saint #Range
Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
-- John of Salisbury

#Law #Tyrants #Differences
He who will not when he may, may not when he will.
-- John of Salisbury

#May
The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.
-- John of Salisbury

#Men #Class #People

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