10 Quotes by John of Salisbury

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.

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

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth.

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.

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.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

The only sure road to truth is humility.