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Quotes About Philosophy

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.
~ Jonathan Ive
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.
~ Joan Robinson
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
~ Khalil Gibran
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
Both force and money are impotent against ideas.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
~ Mukesh Ambani
Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.
~ George Carlin
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
~ Socrates
I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
Money is the wise man's religion.
~ Euripides
My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.
~ Orel Hershiser
Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.
~ Christofer Drew
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
~ Ben Affleck
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
~ Epictetus
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
~ Richard Branson
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
~ Alan Watts
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
~ George Soros
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
~ Seneca the Younger
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~ Havelock Ellis
Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
~ Groucho Marx