'Confusion' is an initial phase of all knowledge, without which one cannot progress to clarity." -Ortega Y Gasset

"The surest way to corrupt a young man(woman) is to teach him (her) to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authorithy is not using his (her) intelligence. He (she) is using his (her) memory." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms." -Will Durant

"You philosophize when you reflect critically upon what you are doing in your world. What you are doing is, of course, in the first place, living. And life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. The critical inquiry into what all these things mean and imply is philosophy." -Josiah Royce

"Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh...." -Kahlil Gibran

"There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

"'There is no use trying', said Alice: 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'" -Lewis Carroll

"It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits." -William James

"Learning is not the accumulation of scraps of knowledge. It is a growth, where every act of knowledge develops the learner." -Edmund Husserl

"Words exist because of meanings: once you've gotten the meaning you can forget the words." -Chuang-Tzu

"Western philosophers have always gone on the assumption that fact is something cut and dried, precise, immobile, very convenient, and ready for examination. The Chinese deny this. The Chinese believe that a fact is something crawling and alive, a little furry and cool to the touch, that crawls down the back of your neck." -Lin Yutang

"Dense, unenlightened people are notoriously confident that they have the monopoly on truth." -Joshua Loth Liebman