Thomas More Quotes

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Thomas More

Knowledge, Life, Human

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas More

Sympathy, Cannot, Here

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More

Rain, Daily, Cannot

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More

Time, Greatest, Problems

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
Thomas More

Faith, God, Die

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Thomas More

Love, Friendship, Warm

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More

Wise, Woman, Advice

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Thomas More

Men, Thought, Made

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Thomas More

Honor, Everybody, Honorable

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
Thomas More

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More

Idea, Known, Rarest

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More

Woman, Rules, Disguise

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
Thomas More

Light, Around, Days

He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas More

Best, Knows, Return

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas More

Life, Emotional, Precious

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
Thomas More

Alone, Her, Lovely

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas More

Love, Age, Friends

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
Thomas More

Money, Bottom, Purse

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

Others, Another, Fall

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
Thomas More

Country, Made, Language

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Thomas More

Life, Nature, Spiritual

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas More

Law, Reason, Protect

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas More

Woman, Books, Looks

Oh! blame not the bard.
Thomas More

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
Thomas More

Down, Coming, Safe

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: February 7, 1478

Died: July 6, 1535

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