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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
~great philosopher sayings by G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by George E. Wilson
Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
~philosopher quotes by Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
~famous quotes about Science by Charles Peirce
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
~philosopher sayings by Lord Chesterfield
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
~great philosopher sayings by Robert Zend
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~inspirational sayings about Appearance quotes by Jonathan Swift
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
~philosopher quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
~famous quotes about Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
~philosopher sayings by Patrick F. McManus
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
~great philosopher sayings by Jean Jacques Rousseau
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
~inspirational sayings about Philosophy quotes by Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
~philosopher quotes by George Berkeley
I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
~famous quotes about Writing by D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938
But the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact - which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...
~philosopher sayings by T.H. Huxley, Biogenesis and Abiogenesis, The Royal Society President's Address to the Meeting of the
Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost.
~great philosopher sayings by Author Unknown
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
~good sayings about Teachers by Author Unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning
~philosopher quotes by Albert Einstein
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
~motivational quotes about Courage sayings by François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
~philosopher sayings by Zacharty Bercovitz
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
~great philosopher sayings by Thomas Paine
Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.
~good sayings about Thrift by Francis H. Sisson
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
~philosopher quotes by Lady Marguerite Blessington
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.
~motivational quotes about Mothers sayings by Robert Fulghum
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
~philosopher sayings by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
~great philosopher sayings by Mark Twain
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
~good sayings about Decisions by Herman Broch
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
~philosopher quotes by Mark Twain
During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
~motivational quotes about Politics sayings by Author Unknown
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
~philosopher sayings by W.H. Auden
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
~great philosopher sayings by Edward R. Murrow
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love
~good sayings about Commitment Ceremonies by Author Unknown
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
~philosopher quotes by Author Unknown
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
~motivational quotes about Telephones sayings by Henry Miller
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
~philosopher sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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