By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

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.

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.

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.

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

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

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.