Philosopher Quotes - Page 8

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

To grow a philosopher's beard.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

I am not a philosopher.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.