Isaac Barrow Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Isaac Barrow quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
“Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.”
“That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.”
“Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.”
“That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.”
“That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.”
“If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.”
“It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.”
“Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.”
“Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.”
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