Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Pierre Bayle

Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.

Phillip E. Johnson

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God.

Naveen Jain

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Nathaniel Branden

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

Jimmy Buffett

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Jim Rohn

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

Jim Rohn

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

Jim Rohn

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Jim Rohn

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Jim Rohn

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Jim Rohn

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Jim Rohn

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Jim Rohn

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Jim Rohn

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

George MacDonald

Philosophy is really homesickness.

George Jones

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Elvis Presley

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Elvis Presley

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Elvis Presley

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

John Crowe Ransom

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

John Constable

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

John Burroughs

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.