All John of Salisbury Quotes
- Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. Animates
- Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge. Cannot Endure
- 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… 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… Any
- Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth Continuous
- 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
- 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"… All
- Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. Accurate