Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Brownewas an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Browne's literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffering from melancholia, his writings are also characterised by wit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1605
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Every Country hath its Machiavel.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
Rich with the spoils of nature.