Quotes About Understanding

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The menu is not the meal.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

All Philosophy is Biography

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.