“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“Trust, but verify.”
Ronald Reagan
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein
“I have not seen a more eloquent sermon than silence.”
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · attributed
“If you do not have a religion and you do not fear the Day of Resurrection, then at least be free in this world.”
Imam Hussain ibn Ali · attributed, addressed at Karbala
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.”
Umberto Eco · Foucault's Pendulum
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Bronte · Wuthering Heights, 1847
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Epicurus
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Is a man unhappy because of exile? Then set before me one who is content in exile.”
Epicurus
“Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the acutest pain is there for a very short time.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
