Peter Abelard Quotes
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.
We do many things carelessly or unwillingly, but nothing studiously unless we are willing and apply ourselves.