Robert Grosseteste Quotes
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Grosseteste, Robert. "The Rules of Saint Robert." Walter of Henley's Husbandry, translated by Elizabeth Lamond, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890, pp. 121-145.
It had been written for a nationwide TV address he was to deliver, but he died before so. This was his last writing.
Robert Grosseteste was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk (according to the early 14th century chronicler Nicholas Trevet), but the associations with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition. Upon his death, he was almost universally revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition".
