Blind man Quote by Michael Ruse

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who…

— Anonymous

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him…

— Louisa May Alcott

Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands…

— James Luther Adams

“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.”

— Peter Boghossian

“A theologian, I found, is much like an archeologist. Both develop expertise in digging. An archeologist sifts through sediment to find objects buried long…

— Meggan Watterson

A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology…

— Herman Bavinck

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact,…

— Anonymous

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

— William Golding

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

“One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.”

— Martin Luther

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

— Martin Luther