Archive for the 'Philosophical Quotes' Category

07 Nov

“A man with a watch…” Segal’s Law

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” Segal’s Law
Popularity: 69% [?]

Popularity: 69% [?]

21 Nov

“A taste for irony has…” Jessamyn West

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” Jessamyn West
Popularity: 75% [?]

Popularity: 75% [?]

18 Oct

“A wise man can see…” Anonymous

“A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.” Anonymous
Popularity: 70% [?]

Popularity: 70% [?]

09 Nov

“All human situations have their…” Benjamin Franklin

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” Benjamin Franklin
Popularity: 73% [?]

Popularity: 73% [?]

08 Nov

“All that is necessary for…” Edmund Burke

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
Popularity: 78% [?]

Popularity: 78% [?]

09 Oct

“Be a friend to thyself…” Thomas Fuller

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” Thomas Fuller
Popularity: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

18 Nov

“Courage is resistance to fear…” Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 74% [?]

Popularity: 74% [?]

08 Oct

“Don’t let life discourage…” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Popularity: 50% [?]

Popularity: 50% [?]

21 Nov

“Education is what survives when…” B. F. Skinner

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner
Popularity: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

08 Nov

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of…” Anonymous

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” Anonymous
Popularity: 81% [?]

Popularity: 81% [?]

26 Sep

“Every exit is…” Tom Stoppard

“Every exit is an entry somewhere.” Tom Stoppard
Popularity: 32% [?]

Popularity: 32% [?]

08 Oct

“Failure is the only…” Henry Ford

“Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” Henry Ford
Popularity: 40% [?]

Popularity: 40% [?]

30 Jul

“First there is a time when…” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Popularity: 33% [?]

Popularity: 33% [?]

21 Oct

“Friendship is the hardest thing…” Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” Muhammad Ali
Popularity: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

21 Nov

“He who asks is a…” Chinese Proverb

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” Chinese Proverb
Popularity: 86% [?]

Popularity: 86% [?]

30 Oct

“Honesty is the first chapter…” Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
Popularity: 71% [?]

Popularity: 71% [?]

08 Oct

“How do you get world peace…” Wayne Dyer

“How do you get world peace. You get world peace through inner peace. If you’ve got a world full of people who have inner peace, then you have a peaceful world.” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 38% [?]

Popularity: 38% [?]

18 Oct

“I am an old man…” Mark Twain

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 74% [?]

Popularity: 74% [?]

26 Sep

“I don’t know the key…” Bill Cosby

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
Popularity: 24% [?]

Popularity: 24% [?]

18 Nov

“I have often depended on…” Adrienne E. Gusoff

“I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.” Adrienne E. Gusoff
Popularity: 71% [?]

Popularity: 71% [?]

08 Oct

“I may not have gone…” Douglas Adams

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams
Popularity: 30% [?]

Popularity: 30% [?]

02 Oct

“I’m an idealist…” Carl Sandburg

“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” Carl Sandburg
Popularity: 41% [?]

Popularity: 41% [?]

08 Oct

“If a man will begin…” Francis Bacon

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” Francis Bacon
Popularity: 35% [?]

Popularity: 35% [?]

26 Sep

“If the only tool…” Abraham Maslow

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow
Popularity: 23% [?]

Popularity: 23% [?]

21 Oct

“If you don’t have a dream…” Oscar Hammerstein

“If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” Oscar Hammerstein
Popularity: 91% [?]

Popularity: 91% [?]

08 Oct

“If you want to be happy…” Anonymous

“If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, love what you do.” Anonymous
Popularity: 35% [?]

Popularity: 35% [?]

08 Oct

“Irrigation of the land…” Michael McClary

“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It’s called ‘rain’.” Michael McClary
Popularity: 23% [?]

Popularity: 23% [?]

12 Nov

“Is there life…” Graffito

“Is there life before death?” Graffito, in Belfast
Popularity: 57% [?]

Popularity: 57% [?]

26 Sep

“It is better to know…” James Thurber

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” James Thurber
Popularity: 20% [?]

Popularity: 20% [?]

07 Nov

“It is our responsibilities, not…” Peter Ustinov

“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” Peter Ustinov
Popularity: 74% [?]

Popularity: 74% [?]

04 Nov

“It is the final proof…” Peter De Vries

“It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.” Peter De Vries, in “The Mackerel Plaza”
Popularity: 63% [?]

Popularity: 63% [?]

08 Oct

“It isn’t that they can’t…” G.K. Chesterton

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” G.K. Chesterton
Popularity: 19% [?]

Popularity: 19% [?]

04 Nov

“Just because something doesn’t do…” Thomas A. Edison

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” Thomas A. Edison
Popularity: 66% [?]

Popularity: 66% [?]

09 Nov

“Love is not blind - it…” Rabbi Julius Gordon

“Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” Rabbi Julius Gordon
Popularity: 65% [?]

Popularity: 65% [?]

09 Nov

“Loving people live in a…” Wayne Dyer

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. But it’s the same world. How come?” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 76% [?]

Popularity: 76% [?]

09 Oct

“Man can climb…” Bernard Shaw

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”   Bernard Shaw
Popularity: 34% [?]

Popularity: 34% [?]

30 Jul

“Man is equally incapable…” Blaise Pascal

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” Blaise Pascal
Popularity: 27% [?]

Popularity: 27% [?]

26 Sep

“Man is the only animal…” William Hazlitt

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.” William Hazlitt
Popularity: 24% [?]

Popularity: 24% [?]

12 Nov

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than…” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear
Popularity: 66% [?]

Popularity: 66% [?]

09 Oct

“Men of ill judgement…” Sophocles

“Men of ill judgement often ignore the good that lies within their hands.” Sophocles
Popularity: 31% [?]

Popularity: 31% [?]

26 Oct

“Men who never get carried…” Malcolm Forbes

“Men who never get carried away should be.” Malcolm Forbes
Popularity: 85% [?]

Popularity: 85% [?]

18 Nov

“No one who cannot rejoice…” Donald Foster

“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.” Donald Foster
Popularity: 67% [?]

Popularity: 67% [?]

04 Nov

“Real knowledge is to know…” Confucius

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius
Popularity: 70% [?]

Popularity: 70% [?]

18 Nov

“Sometimes the heart sees what…” H. Jackson Browne Jr.

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” H. Jackson Browne Jr.
Popularity: 91% [?]

Popularity: 91% [?]

26 Oct

“The best ideas come as…” David M. Ogilvy

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” David M. Ogilvy
Popularity: 81% [?]

Popularity: 81% [?]

26 Sep

“The best way to predict…” Alan Kay

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay
Popularity: 38% [?]

Popularity: 38% [?]

07 Nov

“The main things which seem…” Bertrand Russell

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.” Bertrand Russell
Popularity: 69% [?]

Popularity: 69% [?]

21 Oct

“The mind of a bigot…” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Popularity: 68% [?]

Popularity: 68% [?]

08 Oct

“The more I want to…” Richard Bach

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” Richard Bach
Popularity: 28% [?]

Popularity: 28% [?]

26 Oct

“The real test of friendship…” Eugene Kennedy

“The real test of friendship is: can you do literally nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.” Eugene Kennedy
Popularity: 70% [?]

Popularity: 70% [?]