“ Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ”
- Ernst Mach- Copy
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“ It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit — the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. ”
- Frank M. Garafola- Copy
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“ It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ What every genuine philosopher craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"! ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. ”
- Shahrukh Khan- Copy
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“ The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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