Horace Quotes

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone passing him on the street raised his hat and said, 'Good day,' Litvinoff often paused so long to weigh evidence that by the time he'd settled on an answer the person had gone on his way, leaving him standing alone.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.