Quotes by Philosophers - Page 36

For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
Henry David Thoreau
One cannot know everything.
Horace
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
Cyril Joad
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
Injustice never rules forever.
Seneca
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
Seneca
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Horace
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.
Socrates
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Friedrich von Schiller
Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Love can be understood only "from the inside " as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
Robert C. Solomon
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
Erich Fromm
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred N. Whitehead
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Spinoza
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Søren Kierkegaard
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
William James
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
Michael Novak
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Vauvenargues
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
George Santayana
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Aldous Huxley
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson