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7 Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Bernard of Clairvaux offers sharp, sly wisdom, perfect for anyone curious about clever Latin reflections on authority and learning.

Bernard of Clairvaux quotes

  1. Non est jam dicere, 'Ut populus, sic sacerdos'; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.

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  2. Qui se sibi magistrum constituit, stulto se discipulum subdit.

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  3. Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

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  4. Vulgo dicitur: Quod non videt oculus, cor non dolet.

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  5. Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.

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  6. Inter faeces et urinam nascimur, from ...et quid de nobis, fratres, qui inter faeces et urinam nascimur...

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  7. It is difficult now to look back across the centuries and appreciate the tremendous impact of his personality on all who knew him. The fire of his eloquence has been quenched in the written words that survive. As a theologian and a controversialist he now appears rigid and a little crude and unkind. But from the day in 1115 when, at the age of twenty-five, he was appointed Abbot of Clairvaux, till his death nearly forty years later he was the dominant influence in the religious and political life of western Europe.

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