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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl Jaspers
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Arthur Holly Compton
To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Roger Penrose
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Jacques Derrida
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
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