8 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Knowledge

Sir Thomas Browne quotes on knowledge

7. We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.

19. I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

21. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

37. That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams out of the Ivory gate, and visions before midnight.

39. In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.

40. A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.

44. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

54. But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.