Quotes About Philosophy

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.