William Blake Quotes on Wisdom & Knowledge (18 Quotes)

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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

The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason

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

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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

I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go put off holiness, And put on intellect.