John Marks Templeton: Quotes about thinking

John Marks Templeton was stock investor, businessman and philanthropist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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“It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.”

The Quotable Sir John
Context: The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

“We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now.”

The Quotable Sir John
Context: We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?