Thomas Merton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
Birthday: January 31
Death: December 10
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.
source: Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Wisdom, Book, Thinking, Practical Knowledge
