<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Philosophy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46537]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every clarification breeds new questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every clarification breeds new questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46498]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art banished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46491]]></link><description><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493]]></link><description><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item></channel></rss>