Quotes tagged with 'philosophy'

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
—Anatole France philosophy

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin philosophy

Oppression isn't hearing a word that offends you. Oppression is being told you can't say certain words because you'll offend someone else.
—Morgan Freeman philosophy woke

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
—Robert Frost philosophy

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
—Mahatma Gandhi philosophy

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or whole soul.
—Mahatma Gandhi government life philosophy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—Mahatma Gandhi life philosophy

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
—André Gide philosophy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Stephen Hawking philosophy

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
—Ernest Hemingway philosophy

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise, they grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway life philosophy

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
—Anthony Hopkins life philosophy

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
—Aldous Huxley government life philosophy

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley philosophy

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
—Steve Irwin life philosophy

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson life philosophy

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
—Thomas Jefferson goverment philosophy

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard life philosophy

The man show asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
—Confucius Kǒngzǐ life philosophy

And time, the most precious commodity of all, far more valuable than gold, has been devalued as people are forced to squander it in a terribly backward equation - trading it for money. Just how crazy is that? Who, when their allotment of time is all but spent, would not trade every bit of gold for just a fraction more time?
—John Kretschmer life philosophy sailing