Philosophy Quotes

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."

- Bob Dylan

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

- David Bowie

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

- Oscar Wilde

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."

- Niels Bohr

"The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

- Simone Weil

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."

- Swami Vivekananda

"By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth."

- Peter Abelard

"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."

- Claude Adrien Helvétius

"If I could persuade every single person in the world to accept all of my beliefs, it would not make those beliefs correct. Nor would it change what is actually true."

- David Bercot

"Youth is a disease from which we all recover."

- Dorothy Fuldheim

"21 is a terrific age, maybe the best. Too bad you can’t be that old for the rest of your life."

- Greg Tamblyn

"Thirty is not that old! Do you know how old the earth is?"

- Ross Geller, Friends

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."

- Harold Coffin

"A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it."

- R.C. Ferguson

"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it."

- Doris Day

"Looking 50 is great—if you’re 60."

- Joan Rivers

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down."

- George Burns

"Of late I appear to have reached that stage when people who look old are only my age."

- Richard Armour

"You’ve heard of the three ages of man: Youth, middle age and you’re looking wonderful."

- Cardinal Francis Spellman

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t."

- Richard Bach

"We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live as long as you may. The first 20 years are the longest half of your life."

- Robert Southey

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."

- Euripides

"The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart."

- Bill Bowerman

"What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

- Paarthurnax

"A marathon is hundreds of miles. The finish is the last 26.2."