Philosophy Quote by Jeff Wheeler

“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”

— William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

— William Shakespeare

“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth…

— Philip Pullman

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

— Roger Zelazny

''A lesson I learned from a toothache : Even the sweetest thing on the earth can hurt.''

— Scarlet Kim

“Ultimately, the loss becomes immortal and hole is more familiar than tooth. The tongue worries the phantom root, the mind scans the heart's chambers…

— Karen Green

“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Yet the little tooth contains so much of our connection to the rest of life that it is virtually impossible to understand our bodies…

— Neil Shubin

“A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests…

— Dale Carnegie

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

— Milan Kundera

“Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.”

— Bill Willingham

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

— T. S. Eliot