“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

VIII, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

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Marcus Aurelius 400

Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

Guido Guinizzelli (1230–1276) Italian poet

Sonetto. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, Vol. I, p. 105).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 407.

“What is God? The telescope by which we hold converse with the stars, the microscope which unveils the secrets of nature, the crucible of the chemist, the knife of the anatomist, the reflective faculties of the philosopher, all the common instruments of science, avail not here. On the threshold of that impenetrable mystery, a voice arrests our steps. From out the clouds and darkness that are round about God's throne, the question comes, "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?"”

Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) British divine

Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel Illustrated in a Series of Discourses (1856), PP. 63-64 (Man Suffering).

“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee, as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those, that thou sawest in thy sleep.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

“It is always wise to look ahead – but difficult to look further than you can see.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Appears in Churchill By Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs , p. 576 (“Appendix I : Red Herrings”) : ISBN 1586489577 , with the following explanatory note ; "Reported by the usually reliable Graham Cawthorne, but not in Hansard; possibly an aside to a colleague, however"
Disputed

“Thou art like a philosopher of the heart.”

Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ

13, Matthew’s words to Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)

“If thou knewest the whole Bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would it profit thee without the love of God and without grace?”

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 365.

“Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with the judgment of charity.”

John M. Mason (1770–1829) American Doctor of Divinity

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 554.

“Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?”

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Address to Chapman University students http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/30/scalia.re.enactment.ap/index.html (2005).
2000s

“A wise psychoanalyst once told me, “Stop looking at what you’re saying, look at what you’re doing.””

Corey Robin (1967) American academic

" A wise psychoanalyst once told me (sort of): look at what Trump does, not what he says http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/29/a-wise-psychoanalyst-once-told-me-sort-of-look-at-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/" (2017)

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever… and all the time it is carrying us about… It is the human nervous system itself.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”

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