Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.