Famous Philosophy Saying

Famous Philosophy Saying

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Steve Miller

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Brooks Adams

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-paul Satre

... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
Jim Bower

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
E. W. Dijkstra

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Seneca Every clarification breeds new questions.
Arthur Bloch Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Anonymous

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James A. Froude

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Decouvertes

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia Ashton-warner

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Søren Kierkegaard

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?.
William C. Bagley

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein



For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.Unknown

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others;to leave the world a bit better,whether by a healthy child,a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba