Quotes About Philosophy

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

There is no wisdom but in death

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.