Stephen Gardiner Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
July 27, 1483 – November, 12, 1555.

Stephen Gardiner was an English bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Stephen Gardiner
- Creation
- Houses
- Cave

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner
- World
- House
- Interior
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

Stephen Gardiner
- Life
- Sea
- Land
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

Stephen Gardiner
- Explore
- Forward
- To Go
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Stephen Gardiner
- Balance
- Form
- Describes
What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner
- People
- Want
- Order

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Stephen Gardiner
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Stephen Gardiner