Abstract Quote by Auguste Comte

There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising.…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“Piaget-....A stage then, we may say, is an integrated set of operational structures that constitute the thought processes of a person at a given…

— James W. Fowler

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship…

— Oswald Chambers

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

— Plotinus

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent…

— Henri Nouwen

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

— Godfried Bomans

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like…

— Francis Bacon

“The human mind, by its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, and even radically…

— Auguste Comte

The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know…

— RZA

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second…

— Emile Durkheim

“Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account,…

— John Wesley

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find…

— Thomas Reid