Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
Mike Wallace
"The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream."
Morley Safer
"What seems normal in our own time often seems absurd in another's."
Morley Safer
"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom, not its end."
Morley Safer
"Your perspective shapes your reality."
Diane Sawyer
"Philosophy helps us understand ourselves."
Diane Sawyer
B
"Philosophy begins with wonder."
Bob Schieffer
B
"Philosophy helps us understand why we exist."
Bob Schieffer
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
Katie Couric
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Katie Couric
G
"Life is about creating meaning, not finding it."
Gayle King
"Philosophy without action is just theory."
Diane Sawyer
F
"What is essential is invisible to the eye."
Fred Rogers
"People often believe what they want to believe, not what they should believe."
Morley Safer
"We become what we repeatedly watch and listen to."
Morley Safer
"Our silences are often more revealing than our words."
Morley Safer
"We are all prisoners of our own perspective until we admit it."
Morley Safer
"The human spirit is most revealed in moments of crisis, not comfort."
Mike Wallace
"The interview is a mirror held up to society; what we see depends on who is holding it."
Mike Wallace
"Your perspective shapes your reality. Choose wisely what you pay attention to."
Katie Couric
A
"I think a lot of problems in the world come from people who think they know too much."
Andy Rooney
A
"I think it's very important to have a sense of your own mortality."
Andy Rooney
T
"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."
Tom Wolfe
W
"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom."
Walter Matthau
W
"Philosophy questions everything."
Walter Matthau
"The stories people tell reveal what they truly value."
Katie Couric
"I think meaning is something we create, not something we find."
Katie Couric
"What you resist persists; what you accept transforms."
Katie Couric
C
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Christopher Hitchens
C
"The eternal need for something to worship can't quite be abolished by the secular state."
Christopher Hitchens