Quotes by Thomas More

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.