37 Quotes by Peter Abelard

O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

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 beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

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.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive 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 first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others