All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought together?” This is a practical question. We must get down to it. “I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

“Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.”

“If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”

“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. ”