Averroes Quotes on Knowledge
Averroes, known in Arabic as Ibn Rushd, was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab philosopher, jurist, and physician of the Islamic Golden Age, the most influential medieval commentator on Aristotle. This page collects quotes attributed to Averroes on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Averroes:
“Truth does not contradict truth.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“If reason and revelation appear to disagree, it is the surface meaning of the revealed text that must be reinterpreted.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“The intellect is no other than the perception of things by their causes.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“Philosophy is the friend and milk-sister of religion.”