Age Quote by Anna Letitia Barbauld

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of…

— Bertrand Russell

“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…

— Roger Bacon

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

— Bertrand Russell

“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination…

— George Eliot

“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”

— Bertrand Russell

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without…

— Mercy Otis Warren

“There are certain prejudices attached to the human mind which it requires all our wisdom to keep from interfering with our happiness; certain set…

— Anne Radcliffe

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that…

— John Adams

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

— John C. Wright

“Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your soul of…

— Neel Burton