Thomas Browne Quotes


"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: End, Evil, Hatred, Malice)

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Truth, Man, May, Possession, Surrender)

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Art, Nature, God)

"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Faith, Passion, Reason)

"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Society, Solitude)

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Wealth)

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Power, Life)

"Death is the cure for all diseases."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Cure)

"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Wonders)

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Men, Faces, Wonder)

"It is we that are blind, not fortune."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Blind, Fortune)

"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Faith, Philosophy, Possibilities)

"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Home, Charity, Enemy, Man, Voice, World)

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Cure, Labor)

"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Age, Envy)

"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Faces, May)

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Cause, Constancy, Obstinacy)

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Humor, Men, Passion, Reason)

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Grave, Man)

"Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Life, Death, Living, Shadow, Shadows)