A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake Quote
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake Quote
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
- William Blake Quote
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd.
- William Blake Quote
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
- William Blake Quote
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
- William Blake Quote
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
- William Blake Quote
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
- William Blake Quote
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- William Blake Quote
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
- William Blake Quote
Every harlot was a virgin once.
- William Blake Quote
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
- William Blake Quote
Exuberance is beauty.
- William Blake Quote
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- William Blake Quote
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- William Blake Quote
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
- William Blake Quote
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
- William Blake Quote
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
- William Blake Quote
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
- William Blake Quote
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- William Blake Quote
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
- William Blake Quote
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
- William Blake Quote
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake Quote
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- William Blake Quote
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
- William Blake Quote
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
- William Blake Quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake Quote
Opposition is true friendship.
- William Blake Quote
Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
- William Blake Quote
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
- William Blake Quote
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake Quote
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
- William Blake Quote
The eye altering, alters all.
- William Blake Quote
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
- William Blake Quote
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
- William Blake Quote
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake Quote
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- William Blake Quote
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
- William Blake Quote
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
- William Blake Quote
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake Quote
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
- William Blake Quote
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
- William Blake Quote
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William Blake Quote
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake Quote
To generalize is to be an idiot.
- William Blake Quote
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
- William Blake Quote
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake Quote
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
- William Blake Quote
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
- William Blake Quote
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
- William Blake Quote
What is now proved was once only imagined.
- William Blake Quote
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
- William Blake Quote
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
- William Blake Quote
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
- William Blake Quote
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
- William Blake Quote
You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.
- William Blake Quote
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- William Blake Quote
