Philosophy Quote by Dugald Stewert

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body;…

— Jonathan Swift

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

— Frank Moore Colby

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

— Robin Sharma

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion;…

— Bertrand Russell

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

— Anonymous

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

— Bertrand Russell