Quotes About Wisdom

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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

The menu is not the meal.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

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.

Philosophy is the art of living.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

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.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

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

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened