Quotes About Philosophy

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.

I think when I was in college I thought that, you know, like, sort of giving everyone an equal amount and spreading it around seems like a wonderful idea.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

We've always had a philosophy at Spurs to play out from the back, to play with style, to play out from the back and that's the way I've always been brought up and to come into the first team is no different.

I spent so long at Spurs that it's my club. If I was to become a good coach then that would be by DNA with the way they play and the way they go about things.