Archive for the 'Philosophical Quotes' Category

21 Apr

“A baby is born with…” Frank Howard Clark

“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.” Frank Howard Clark
Popularity: 34% [?]

Popularity: 34% [?]

19 Apr

“A life spent making mistakes…” George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but most useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw
Popularity: 36% [?]

Popularity: 36% [?]

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: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

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: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

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: 46% [?]

Popularity: 46% [?]

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: 78% [?]

Popularity: 78% [?]

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: 82% [?]

Popularity: 82% [?]

09 Oct

“Be a friend to thyself…” Thomas Fuller

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” Thomas Fuller
Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

19 Apr

“Be who you are and…” Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss
Popularity: 39% [?]

Popularity: 39% [?]

18 Nov

“Courage is resistance to fear…” Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 76% [?]

Popularity: 76% [?]

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: 38% [?]

Popularity: 38% [?]

19 Apr

“Education is a companion which…” Joseph Addison

“Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what [...]

Popularity: 34% [?]

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: 83% [?]

Popularity: 83% [?]

08 Nov

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

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” Anonymous
Popularity: 84% [?]

Popularity: 84% [?]

26 Sep

“Every exit is…” Tom Stoppard

“Every exit is an entry somewhere.” Tom Stoppard
Popularity: 23% [?]

Popularity: 23% [?]

08 Oct

“Failure is the only…” Henry Ford

“Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” Henry Ford
Popularity: 30% [?]

Popularity: 30% [?]

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: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

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: 51% [?]

Popularity: 51% [?]

19 Apr

“Go for it now…” Wayne Dyer

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 40% [?]

Popularity: 40% [?]

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: 88% [?]

Popularity: 88% [?]

30 Oct

“Honesty is the first chapter…” Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
Popularity: 75% [?]

Popularity: 75% [?]

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: 27% [?]

Popularity: 27% [?]

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: 48% [?]

Popularity: 48% [?]

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: 16% [?]

Popularity: 16% [?]

18 Nov

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

“I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.” Adrienne E. Gusoff
Popularity: 74% [?]

Popularity: 74% [?]

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: 22% [?]

Popularity: 22% [?]

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: 31% [?]

Popularity: 31% [?]

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: 27% [?]

Popularity: 27% [?]

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: 16% [?]

Popularity: 16% [?]

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: 63% [?]

Popularity: 63% [?]

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: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

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: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

12 Nov

“Is there life…” Graffito

“Is there life before death?” Graffito, in Belfast
Popularity: 63% [?]

Popularity: 63% [?]

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: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

07 Nov

“It is our responsibilities, not…” Peter Ustinov

“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” Peter Ustinov
Popularity: 77% [?]

Popularity: 77% [?]

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: 69% [?]

Popularity: 69% [?]

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: 14% [?]

Popularity: 14% [?]

19 Apr

“It takes courage to grow up…” E.E. Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
Popularity: 35% [?]

Popularity: 35% [?]

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: 69% [?]

Popularity: 69% [?]

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: 69% [?]

Popularity: 69% [?]

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: 79% [?]

Popularity: 79% [?]

09 Oct

“Man can climb…” Bernard Shaw

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”   Bernard Shaw
Popularity: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

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: 14% [?]

Popularity: 14% [?]

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: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

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: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

09 Oct

“Men of ill judgement…” Sophocles

“Men of ill judgement often ignore the good that lies within their hands.” Sophocles
Popularity: 23% [?]

Popularity: 23% [?]

26 Oct

“Men who never get carried…” Malcolm Forbes

“Men who never get carried away should be.” Malcolm Forbes
Popularity: 59% [?]

Popularity: 59% [?]

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: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

19 Apr

“Nobody gets to live life…” Ann Landers

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” Ann Landers
Popularity: 42% [?]

Popularity: 42% [?]

23 Apr

“Once, when my feet were bare…” Sadi, The Gulistan

“Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience.” [...]

Popularity: 35% [?]