Quotes About Wisdom

I've found a very good friend and a philosopher in Trivikram.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

Philosophy is for the few.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Philosophy changes day by day.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'