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Philosophy/Wisdom Quotations – Page 2

Moses and God Dialogue

 

“Whence come disease and healing?” asked the prophet Moses of God. “From me,” was the reply. “What purpose do doctors serve?” “They earn their living and cultivate hope in the heart of the patient until I either take away his life or give him back his health.”
 

**Albert Denti di Pirajno**
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Rich and Poor Die

 

The poor die of want, the rich die of surfeit.
 

**Jean Jacques Rousseau**
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Similes in an Argument

 

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
 

**Franz Kafka**
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Integrity

 

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.

If you don’t have integrity….

Nothing else matters.
 

**Alan K. Simpson**
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Public Opinion

 

You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people thought if you realized how seldom they do.
 

**Eleanor Roosevelt**
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Common Sense

 

Common-sense nerve fibers are seldom medullated before forty–they are never seen even with a microscope before twenty.

Sir william knew over one hundred years ago what science is just discovering regarding prefrontal lobe development in adolescence and early 20′s. (Jameson)
 

**Sir William Osler**
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Counting

 

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

 

**Albert Einstein**
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Roots and Wings

 

Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.
 

**Hodding Carter**
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Approximate Better Than Exact

 

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
 

**John W. Tukey (1962)**
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Left Unsaid

 

There are times when good words are left to be unsaid out of esteem for silence.
 

**The Rule of Benedict**
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