Isaac Barrow Professions : Mathematician Died : May 4, 1677 Browse All Authors Top 48 quotes by Isaac Barrow None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice. Isaac Barrow prejudice wise mistake Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. Isaac Barrow complication wickedness slander Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back. Isaac Barrow retreat sin ifs In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security. Isaac Barrow favors men world The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. Isaac Barrow noble men heaven We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Isaac Barrow be-good goodness may 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. Isaac Barrow truth dark justice men 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. Isaac Barrow expect strange practice men Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors