William Jones Quotes

United Kingdom, Philologist
September 28, 1746 – April, 27, 1794.

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

William Jones
- World
- Poetry
- Teacher
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

William Jones
- Country
- Law
- Highest

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

William Jones
- Time
- Heaven
- Soothing
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

William Jones
- Simple
- Accents
- Pearls
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

William Jones
- Different
- Nature
- Science
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

William Jones
In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

William Jones
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

William Jones

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

William Jones
- Opinion
- Should
- Hands
Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

William Jones
- Service
- Helping
- Public