Quotes about Wisdom
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
If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hence it is written (Wis. 9:14): "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." Thus man needs to be guarded by the angels. Reply
— St. Thomas Aquinas
the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence,
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence — we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Therefore, as the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things for the sake of the perfection of the universe, so it is the cause of inequality. For the universe would not be perfect if only one grade of goodness were found in things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas