Philosophical Quotes

Here are some Philosophical Quotes. They are about many different subjects, so go ahead and search for one that works for you. All of these quotes are very good to live by.

Newest Quotes

The way to change minds is with affection, not anger. -- The Dalai Lama

We must become the change we want to see. -- Mahatma Gandhi

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? -- Plato

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. -- Old Yiddish proverb

I think; therefore I am. -- Rene Descartes

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. -- Socrates

Older Quotes

The reverse side also has a reverse side. -- Japanese proverb

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. -- Kahlil Gibran

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. -- Haitian Proverb

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. -- Confucious

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. -- John William Fletcher

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. -- Dr. M. Scott Peck

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. -- Socrates

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man. -- Socrates

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. -- Confucius

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. -- Plato

The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know. -- Socrates

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Tolstoy

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones. -- Confucius

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. -- Confucius

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. -- Confucius

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. -- Arabic Proverb

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -- Albert Camus

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love. -- Frank Moore Colby

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. -- Vince Lombardi

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