Greek Philosopher Quotes
- To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
- The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught… — Philip K. Dick
- The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In… — Stanley Krippner
- To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of… — Brigid Brophy
- In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Jesus Huerta de Soto
- Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
- Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… — George Will
- It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow… — Tom Stoppard
- There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is… — Joyce Carol Oates
- Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember… — Chaim Potok
- The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers… — Jürgen Moltmann
- Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
- Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You… — Dale Carnegie