Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

— Terry Pratchett

“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and…

— Michael Crichton

“Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul,…

— Bryant McGill

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and…

— Virgil

“Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of…

— Sunday Adelaja

“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill”

— George Eliot

“I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”

— Anonymous

“You see yourself as something of a champion of the poor, don't you?" "No, just their doctor.”

— K.J. Bishop

“In every generation there are men and women who pretend to be able to instruct us in a way of life that guarantees that…

— Eugene H. Peterson

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man…

— James Boswell

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

— Morris Raphael Cohen