| 64 Philosophy Quotes
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“The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to
steer.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Man and Superman (act III)
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“Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]”
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues Quotes Source: Pensees Diverses (no. 372, Gilbert's ed., 1857, vol. I, p. 475)
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“Why should not grave Philosophy be styled.
Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,
A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Excursion (bk. III)
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“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Presentiments
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“Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?”
Charles Connolly Quotes |
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“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.”
John Jay Chapman Quotes |
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“It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.”
Charles F. Kettering Quotes |
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“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”
Epictetus Quotes |
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“Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“A timid question will always receive a confident answer.”
Lord Darling Quotes |
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“Facts often contradict with truths.”
David H.k. Leung Quotes |
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“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.”
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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“Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.”
Michael Reed Quotes |
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“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
Anthony Jay Quotes |
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“If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.”
Edward Hodnett Quotes |
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“The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.”
Steve Miller Quotes |
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“All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.”
Ernest Dimnet Quotes |
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“Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
Francis Bacon Quotes |
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“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. - The Upton Letters.”
A. C. Benson Quotes |
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“Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“... 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 Quotes |
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes |
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“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
E. W. Dijkstra Quotes |
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