Arrange Quote by John Leslie

“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The true meaning of our philosophy will be unintelligible to the arrogant, the boastful and the mocking. Beware of those who exhibit such traits.”

— Joanne Owen

“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment,…

— Epictetus

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.”

— Keela Sanders

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

— Lev Shestov

“It seemed too good to be true and thus, be human philosophy, clearly false.”

— Stephenie Meyer

And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the…

— David Hume

“Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose, the simplicity of an earnest, dependent…

— Ellen G. White

“The way of truth is one and artless: the way of private gain and success in such affairs as we are entrusted with is…

— Michel de Montaigne

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche