Both sides Quote by Joyce Brothers

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

— Anonymous

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who…

— Plato

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

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