Quotes about philosophy

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Bill Gates

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Albert Einstein

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.

David Hume

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

Khalil Gibran

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

William James

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

Alexandre Dumas

I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

Galileo Galilei