Belief Quote by David Stove

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to…

— Ernst Mach

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

— Gilles Deleuze

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

— Henry Adams

The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don't understand.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic:…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller

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

— John C. Wright

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

— Elbert Hubbard