Top 20 Poor Philosopher Quotes
#2. There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
Giacomo Leopardi
#3. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.
Louis C.K.
#4. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
Edward Snowden
#5. Because she bears the image of God. She doesn't have to conjure it, go get it from a salon, have plastic surgery or breast implants. No, beauty is an essence that is given to every woman at her creation.
John Eldredge
#7. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
A.A. Milne
#11. I'd hit that so hard whoever pulled me out would become the King of England.
Michelle Hodkin
#12. The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#13. If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.
Debbie Ford
#14. I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!
Swami Vivekananda
#15. More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
Jonathan Stroud
#16. I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].
Jim Gaffigan
#17. Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.
Max Euwe
#18. I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.
Rocky Carroll
#19. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.
Atul Gawande
#20. [It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.
William J. Clinton