Quotes about Knowledge
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love follows knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is better to illuminate than merely to shine. Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas