“Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John, tractate XXIX, § 6, as translated by Philip Schaff (1888)

About Augustine of Hippo

354 – 430

Early Christian theologian and philosopher, author of "Confessions".

“Love, and do what thou wilt.”

“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”