If you think you are the philosopher then I am the…

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

— Socrates

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

— Anonymous

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk

That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when…

— Nicole Krauss

I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself…

— David Hume

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the…

— Richard F. Heck

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but…

— Plutarch

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it…

— Jacques Loeb

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

— William Shakespeare

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak