Quotes about "Global & Cultural Wisdom"

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ”

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. ”

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ”

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ”

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ”

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ”

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ”

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. ”

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. ”

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. ”