John Milton Quotes on Wisdom & Knowledge (9 Quotes)


    God is thy law, thou mine to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.

    And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

    Not to know at large of things remote From us, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.

    The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill

    Thus with the year Seasons return but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.


    Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

    What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

    What is strength without a double share of wisdom Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties strength's not made to rule, but to sub serve, where wisdom bears command.

    Wisest men Have erred, and by bad women been deceived And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.


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