Philosophy Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

— Oliver Goldsmith

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

— Oliver Goldsmith

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but…

— Oliver Goldsmith