Divinity Quote by David Hume Download Open image “Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Divinity Education Growth Knowledge Learning Retarded True knowledge
“Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.” — Bob P. Buford Copy Share Image
“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would otherwise advance… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“The end of learning, he said, is to “repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“No scripture is more divine than the innate divinity of the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity,… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God. Then… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
