Education Quote by Anonymous

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.

— Robert Boyle

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

— Charles William Eliot

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

— John Locke

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

— Josiah Royce

“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any”

— Ayn Rand

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

— Alan Watts

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

“I once heard philosophy defined as ‘the study of things that no one understands.”

— E. William Brown

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy