Quotes about philosophy

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.

Will Durant

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Benjamin Franklin

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Oscar Wilde

As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

Peter Lynch

This is the tragedy of almost every civilization-that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.

Will Durant

Inquiry doesn’t have a motive. It doesn’t teach a philosophy. It’s just investigation.

Byron Katie

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Thomas Carlyle