Quotes about Knowledge

But the holy angels, towards whose society and assembly we sigh while in this our toilsome pilgrimage, as they already abide in their eternal home, so do they enjoy perfect facility of knowledge and felicity of rest. It is without difficulty that they help us; for their spiritual movements, pure and free, cost them no effort.

Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee? Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these. And whoso knoweth both Thee and them is not the happier for them, but for Thee only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful, and becomes not vain in his imaginations.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

My fondness for good books was my salvation.

Beware the man of a single book.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence" (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.