Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.
Source: In the Name of the Bodleian
Topic
337 quotes about wisdom.
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.
They were barbarians and wreckers.
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.
The plain intention of an honest man.
Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.
The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat.
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves.
It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.
We have no reason to fear lest a habit of conscientious inquiry should paralyze the actions of our daily life.
We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.
We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.
There it is worse than presumption to believe.
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.
Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.