Philosophy Quote by Thomas More — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”

“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.”

“Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.”

“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.”

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”