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Sir Thomas Browne Quotes

Sir Thomas Browne

English author And polymath

Nationality: English
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Type: Author
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Birth: 1605-1682
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew q
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
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Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbour.
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There is only one good - knowledge; and only one evil - ignorance.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Know thyself.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wis
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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