“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have understood much, but that you have been able to retain it. Otherwise it is of… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the letters, so also the stupid and 'animal man' who 'does not perceive the things of God', may see… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share
“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous. — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the letters, so… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
