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Quotes About Philosophy

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
~ Charles Dickens
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
~ Cornel West
Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
~ Herbie Hancock
Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
~ Mason Cooley
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.
~ Confucius, Gespräche
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
~ Confucius, Gespräche
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~ Francis Bacon
Wisdom is knowing you know nothing
~ Socrates
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~ Plato
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
~ Plato
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
~ Adam Smith
Religious nuts, atheists, theists, as too most scientists fail to "get" IT - the Ultimate Reality - because they seek it through ego.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
~ David Brooks
Love is the best wisdom.Kindness is the best philosophy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the best philosophy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.
~ Amit Kalantri