Asks Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

— Philippa Foot

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

If a philosopher answers your question, you will no longer understand what you asked in the first place

— Hussein Nishah

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who…

— Plato

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and…

— Epictetus

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

— Mary Ritter Beard

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am not a philosopher.

— Hans Bethe

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

— Vikrant Parsai

The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To…

— Henry David Thoreau