![After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.](/assets/img/quote-photos/after-gibbs-one-the-most-distinguished-american-scientists-was-langley-of-the.jpg)
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Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. Luc de Clapiers
philosophy philosopher truth-is
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins
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I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times John Archibald Wheeler
philosophy believe men
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below. Eric Johnston
philosophy writing play
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. Eric Hoffer
philosophy people wish
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not. Napoleon Hill
philosophy virtue skepticism
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world. Norman Thomas
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
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The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. T. S. Eliot
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
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The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. Ambrose Bierce
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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova