And thou my minde aspire to higher things;_x000D_ _x000D_ Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Philip SidneyRead
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Suspend your preconceived notions to judge situations more accurately.
Philip Sidney's quote emphasizes the importance of approaching judgment without bias. If one holds onto preconceived opinions, their perspective will be distorted, similar to how a person with jaundice sees everything as yellow; thus, discerning truth requires an open and unbiased mind.
Themes
JudgmentBiasPerceptionTruthWisdom
In practice
Example use cases
During a debate, you might say this quote to encourage people to set aside their biases.
More from Philip Sidney
All quotes →So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
Philip SidneyRead
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Philip SidneyRead
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Philip SidneyRead
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Philip SidneyRead
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
Philip SidneyRead
Similar quotes
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott PeckRead
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
Etty HillesumRead
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SophoclesRead
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha ChristieRead