Philosophy Quotes

"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."

"I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible."

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

"Knowledge is the life of the mind."

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"To think is to practice brain chemistry."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again."

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."

"I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination."

"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."

"Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."