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Philosopher Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage…
- There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
- The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is…
- There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade…
- To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
- Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to…
- A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind…
- The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is…
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- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
- Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
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- It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind… — Edward de Bono