Quotes About Philosophy

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.