Quotes about Understanding
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who truly understands love could love anyone.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: The six days, as Augustine understands them, are taken as the six classes of things known by the angels; so that the day's unit is taken according to the unit of the thing understood; which, nevertheless, can be apprehended by various ways of knowing it.
— St. Thomas Aquinas