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 ourselves.

Thomas Aquinas
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  1. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! - Allan Rufus

  2. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. I think it was the institution... I was trying to master it. - E. Lockhart

  4. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore... - Francis Bacon

  5. God is our great Master. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Thomas Aquinas
  1. The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only when God lays His headagainst us.

  2. Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  3. The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

  4. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  5. Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.

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