Quotes About Philosophy

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.