Thinkers of the Medieval Period
Jami
1414 – 1492
Literaturequotes
It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war.
Joan of Arc
1412 – 1431
Militaryquotes
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she acted under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Walter Hilton
1340 – 1396
Literaturequotes
Walter Hilton, Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic, whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales.
What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.
Nicholas of Cusa
1401 – 1464
Mathematicsquotes
Nicholas of Cusa, also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, he made spiritual and political contributions to European culture. A notable example of this is his mystical or spiritual writings on "learned ignorance", as well as his participation in power struggles between Rome and the German states of the Holy Roman Empire.
nothing is seen other than Thyself, art Thyself the object of Thyself
Jan Hus
1370 – 1415
Religionquotes
Jan Hus, sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation. Hus is considered to be the first Church reformer, even though some designate the theorist John Wycliffe. His teachings had a strong influence, most immediately in the approval of a reformed Bohemian religious denomination and, over a century later, on Martin Luther.
Catherine of Siena
1347 – 1380
Literaturequotes
Saint Catherine of Siena: text with concordances and frequency list
Thomas Bradwardine
1300 – 1349
Religionquotes
Thomas Bradwardine was an English cleric, scholar, mathematician, physicist, courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. As a celebrated scholastic philosopher and doctor of theology, he is often called Doctor Profundus.
Henry Morley, English Writers. V.1, Pts. 1-2; 2, Volume 2, Issue 1
Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406
Economicsquotes
Ibn Khaldun was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.
Words from November 4
"It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war."
Jami
1414
"Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less."
Jami
1414
"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth."
Joan of Arc
1412
"Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth."
Joan of Arc
1412
"What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference."
Walter Hilton
1340
"I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy."
Walter Hilton
1340