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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for…
- 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…
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
- Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because…
- If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to…
- Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
- There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows…
- It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
- Love follows knowledge.
- Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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