Philosopher Quotes

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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