Thomas Willis Quotes

"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power."
- Thomas Willis
(Related: Power, Children, Disgrace, Fortune, Name)

"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."
- Thomas Willis
(Related: Prejudice, Understanding, Weakness)

"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit."
- Thomas Willis
(Related: Age, Men, Liberal, Old, Parents, Want, Wit)