Inspirational Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Learning Metaphysics Philosopher Philosophy Temptation
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James Copy Share Image
God loves only one philosophy, And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image