Quotes About Philosophy

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

The wise are above books.

I'd like to be very wise.

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.