11 William Blake Quotes on Wisdom

William Blake quotes on wisdom

5. Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

9. To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit-General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess

56. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

58. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

60. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

64. The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

66. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

72. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

74. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

130. Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

151. This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.