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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
~philosophy begins in wonder by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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.
~inspirational sayings about Science quotes by G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
~philosophy quotes by Jonathan Swift
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
~famous quotes about Philosophical by Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
~philosophy sayings by Author Unknown
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
~philosophy begins in wonder by Martin H. Fischer
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
~inspirational sayings about Philosophical quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
~philosophy quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
~famous quotes about Life by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
By daily dying I have come to be.
~philosophy sayings by Theodore Roethke
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
~philosophy begins in wonder by Buddha
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
~inspirational sayings about Poetry quotes by Aristotle, On Poetics
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
~philosophy quotes by Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad
I am a part of all that I have met.
~famous quotes about Philosophical by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
~philosophy sayings by Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
~philosophy begins in wonder by Paul Gauguin
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future
~good sayings about Future by Niels Bohr
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~philosophy quotes by e.e. cummings, 1955
When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
~motivational quotes about Perfection sayings by George Fisher
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~philosophy sayings by Arthur Schopenhauer
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
~philosophy begins in wonder by Nicholas Johnson
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
~good sayings about Media Journalism by Napoleon
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
~philosophy quotes by George Chapman
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
~motivational quotes about Worry sayings by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.
~philosophy sayings by Ernst Mach
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better
~philosophy begins in wonder by Albert Camus
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~good sayings about Honesty by Winston Churchill
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
~philosophy quotes by Garrison Keillor
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
~motivational quotes about Self sayings by Richard Bach
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~philosophy sayings by Tom Wilson
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for
~philosophy begins in wonder by Stanislaus I, Maxims
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
~good sayings about God by St. Augustine
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
~philosophy quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold
Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.
~motivational quotes about Religion sayings by Martin H. Fischer
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
~philosophy sayings by William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters
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