“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— William Blake, A Memorable Fancy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-1793

About William Blake

1757 – 1827

English poet and artist, author of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience".

“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go.”

“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”