Book Quote by Ray Bradbury

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

— Val Kilmer

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means…

— Alain de Botton

Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped…

— Charlie Munger

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

— Plato

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big…

— Sylvia Plath

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

I admire Goethe as one of the smartest and wisest men of all time

— Albert Einstein

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking…

— Heather Wilson

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their…

— Jessye Norman