Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

In other words knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more not less.

Although modesty is natural to man it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Where knowledge ends religion begins.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.