1,357 Quotes About Philosopher

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

To be jealous is a human nature, but what you do or say when your jealous, that is a choice or action chosen by you.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.

Don't hate that is the only way you will progress to success. Learn to congratulate and compliment others when they do good, win or succeed.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.

Your time is the most precious thing in this world.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.