Quotes About Wisdom

Philosophy is everybody's business.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.