Philosophical Quotes That Make You Think

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.  
-Aesop

Believe those who are seeking the truth.  Doubt those who find it.  
-Andre Gide

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.  
-Polish Proverb

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?  
-Stanislaw J. Lec

A gun gives you the body, not the bird.  
-Henry David Thoreau

The unexamined life is not worth living
-Socrates

I think therefore I am
-Rene Descartes

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.  After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.  
-Zen Buddhist Proverb

There are some remedies worse than the disease.  
-Publilius Syrus

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.  
-William Blake

A friend to all is a friend to none
-Aristotle

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.  
-Henry David Thoreau

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
-Aristotle

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.  
-Henri Louis Bergson

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.  
-Navajo Proverb

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.  
-Terry Josephson

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.  
-Robert Brault

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.  
-Russian Prover

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.  
-Bertrand Russell 

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.  
-Roger Miller

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?  
-George Gordon

Seeking is not always the way to find.  
-Augustus William Hare

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.  
-S.A. Sachs

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.  
-Thomas Carlyle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which gaurantees the others
-Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in posessing honors, but in deserving them
-Aristotle 

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.  
-Doménico Cieri Estrada

Education is the best provision for old age
-Aristotle

An honest man is always a child
-Socrates

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.  
-Dr Seuss

Who depends on another man's table often dines late
-John Ray 

A thousand men can't undress a naked man
-Greek Proverb

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.  
-Antonio Porchia

It's always Now
-Eckhart Tolle

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.  
-Buddha

Be as you wish to seem
-Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings
-Socrates

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.  
-Robert Brault

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly
-Plato

You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.
-Martin Rutte

The future influences the present just as much as the past.  
-Friedrich Nietzsche

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.  
-Robert von Musil

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.  
-Robert M. Pirsig

A stumble may prevent a fall.  
-English Proverb

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.  Seek what they sought.  
-Matsuo Basho

History is writteb by the victors
-Machiavelli 

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
-Confucius

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail
-Abraham Maslow

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues
-Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions
-Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly
-Plutarch

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich
-Democritus

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong
-Democritus 

Happiness resides not in posessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul
-Democritus

He has the most who is most content with the least
-Diogenes

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