Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is justified belief.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.