Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

—Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy. He is the father of...

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If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit.

—Thomas Aquinas in De Veritate

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

—Thomas Aquinas

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

—Thomas Aquinas

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

—Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are.

—Thomas Aquinas

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I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.

—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You

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People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all.

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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When confronted by a human being who impresses us as truly great, should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his failures?

—Lou Andreas-Salome

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

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We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?

—Michel de Montaigne

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