Add Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

I am not a philosopher.

— Hans Bethe

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

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

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

— David Hume

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those…

— Stefan Molyneux

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch

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

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

— Criss Jami