Bernard of Chartres Quotes

• We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Science, Sight, Progress

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• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Giants, Classic, Shoulders

  Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Inspirational, Life, Dwarves

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