Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by John Stuart Blackie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish writer John Stuart Blackie.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

John Stuart Blackie FRSE was a Scottish scholar and man of letters.

Scottish - Writer | July 28, 1809 - March 2, 1895

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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

John Stuart Blackie

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

John Stuart Blackie

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

John Stuart Blackie

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

John Stuart Blackie

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

John Stuart Blackie

Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

John Stuart Blackie

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

John Stuart Blackie

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

John Stuart Blackie

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

John Stuart Blackie