"The first key to wisdom is assiduous and……" — Peter Abelard
"The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning."
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Peter Abelard
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23 Quotes by Peter Abelard
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and…
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the…
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding…
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By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,
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Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which…
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In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not…
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Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us…
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And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under…
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Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
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Logic has made me hated in the world.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data,…
— John Dewey
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
— Eugenio Montale
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker,…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history…
— E L Doctorow
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
— William Hurt
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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead…
— Jose Saramago
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