Quotes About Wisdom

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.