Top 84 Philosophical Wisdom Quotes
#1. Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing
Julia Heywood
#3. Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart
Munia Khan
#4. Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head
Munia Khan
#7. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#8. I've always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.
Benny Bellamacina
#9. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#10. If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
Benny Bellamacina
#11. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#12. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
Romain Rolland
#13. Life, wherever it leads,
Will always be the same,
It begs for the best of you.
Scott Hastie
#14. I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.
Benny Bellamacina
#15. Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
Ron Rash
#19. It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#23. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#24. Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
Zig Ziglar
#26. That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless
Plato
#27. Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time
Benny Bellamacina
#28. Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#29. It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
David Brooks
#30. In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love
Benny Bellamacina
#31. The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
Tim Jackson
#32. What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.
Roy T. Bennett
#33. That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#34. Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.
Munia Khan
#35. You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want ...
Julia Heywood
#36. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.
Moryah DeMott
#37. Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others.
Julia Heywood
#39. What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn't say, what one does and doesn't do, what one thinks and doesn't think.
Michel Onfray
#41. There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.
D.B. Patterson
#42. Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
Heraclitus
#43. Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time
Benny Bellamacina
#44. Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
#45. The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
#46. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.
Mulla Sadra
#47. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
Munia Khan
#48. Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
Michel De Montaigne
#49. Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Euripides
#50. He was a trifle embarrassed to be deserting his hard-won realism in order to follow what he thought was the dominant philosophical fashion.
Philip Zaleski
#53. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}
Richard Mc Sweeney
#54. Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend.
Munia Khan
#55. You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Sarah Addison Allen
#56. If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.
Benny Bellamacina
#58. If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder.
Benny Bellamacina
#59. It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again
Munia Khan
#61. It's not really outstanding when you're standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout
Munia Khan
#62. When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts
Benny Bellamacina
#65. Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#68. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen
Benny Bellamacina
#70. If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber
Benny Bellamacina
#72. It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going
Benny Bellamacina
#73. Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
#74. Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
Benny Bellamacina
#79. Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must - if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom - we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
Margaret Sanger
#80. Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#81. True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#82. I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
Robin Jones Gunn
#83. Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Harshit Walia
