| Author |
Quotes |
| Jim Bower | ... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true? |
| John Jay Chapman | Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones. |
| John Selden | Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. |
| Lord Chesterfield | A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. |
| Lord Darling | A timid question will always receive a confident answer. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. |
| Michael Reed | Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. |
| Naguib Mahfouz | You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. |
| Noel Coward | Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. |
| Socrates | My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher. |
| Steve Miller | The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities, thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. |
| Francis Bacon | A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. |
| Francis Bacon | Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. |
| Francis Bacon | A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. |
| George Bernard Shaw | The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference, to be in hell is to drift, to be in heaven is to steer. |
| John Milton | How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. |
| John Milton | That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. |
| Samuel Butler | Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. |
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