Clever Philosophy Quotes

#1. As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

C. D. Broad

#2. One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. I think this is the part where we stop pretending we're not going to see each other again.

Hannah Moskowitz

#4. My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Loni Anderson

#5. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

Cam Newton

#6. Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

Richard Digance

#9. I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Amanda Mosher

#11. In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

G-Eazy

#13. It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".

J.L. Austin

#14. I guess, then, that is what I find troublesome about this plan. It is too logical, too clever, too carefully thought out, and, most important of all, it has to be carried out in secret, which means that if the American public knew about it, they would be appalled and would not be supportive of it.

J.W. Amran

#15. Truth is one, though
the sages
know it as many .
God is one, though
different
religions
approach
Him differently
Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus
or any other form of God that you believe
in .
Our paths may be different.
Our destination
is the same.

Amish Tripathi

#16. Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Taylor

#17. Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away.

John Keats

#18. Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I'm just saying, as someone who occasionally rigs fights, I'm offended by the lack of professionalism.

Patrick Weekes