Book Quote by Peter Abelard

“Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth...”

— Peter Abelard

By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

— Peter Abelard

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive…

— Peter Abelard

I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love...…

— Peter Abelard

“By doubting we are led to enquiry, and by enquiry we discern the truth.”

— Peter Abelard

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the…

— Peter Abelard

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.…

— Peter Abelard

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather…

— Peter Abelard

“We do many things carelessly or unwillingly, but nothing studiously unless we are willing and apply ourselves.”

— Peter Abelard

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of…

— Peter Abelard

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away,…

— Peter Abelard

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but…

— Peter Abelard