Quotes about Understanding

nothing can be known, save what is true;

No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.

Reply to Objection 1: The six days, as Augustine understands them, are taken as the six classes of things known by the angels; so that the day's unit is taken according to the unit of the thing understood; which, nevertheless, can be apprehended by various ways of knowing it.

Whether, besides Philosophy, any Further Doctrine Is Required? Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

On the contrary, Augustine says (Octog. Tri. Quaest. qu. xlvi),"Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.