Philosophy Quote by Charles De Saint-Evremond

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

— Giacomo Leopardi

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of…

— Andre Gide

Philosophy is for the few.

— William Gilbert

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

— Ayn Rand

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

— John Lancaster Spalding