Erasmus
Humanist scholar
Sayings by Erasmus
There are many things in life that are not worth having, but there is nothing that is not worth doing.
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
A man who desires to be good must first be a man of good will.
The whole world is a stage.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do.
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The heart of man is a little world, where all the good and evil of the universe are to be found.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
The dice are thrown.
He who learns from everyone is a wise man; he who learns from no one is a fool.
Better to be silent than to speak ill.
The beginning of health is to know the disease.
I am a citizen of the world.
The greatest obstacle to knowledge is the belief that one already knows.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
The greatest wealth is health.
To be learned is not to be wise.