Astrid Berges-Frisbey Quotes

A concept is stronger than a fact.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

In my experience those who know don’t talk and those who talk don’t know.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.