I'm not a philosopher. I don't pretend to be a…

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that…

— Steven Pinker

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain…

— Brian Ferneyhough

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

— Henry Adams

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in…

— Henry David Thoreau

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