Activity Quote by John W. Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity,…

— Anonymous

A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing

— John Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks…

— Ouida

The most practicable, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work if you won't

— Stankyrich

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

— Anonymous

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

— Stanley Kubrick

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

— Edith Green

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

— Plato

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

— Eleanor Roosevelt