Quotes about Philosophy
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
— Ayn Rand
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
— Peter Drucker
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
— Confucius
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
— Confucius
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
— Epictetus
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
— Arthur Schopenhauer