Desirable Quote by Edith Green

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity,…

— Anonymous

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

— Wallace Stevens

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in…

— Jerry Fodor

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to…

— Kevin Warwick

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises…

— Anonymous

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

— Michael O'Leary

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Heraclitus

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great…

— George Bernard Shaw