Quotes about Knowledge
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- St. Augustine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
- St. Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
- St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
- St. Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
- St. Augustine
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
- Saint Jerome
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson