The principle of epistemic modesty does not imply that people in high places know what they’re doing; quite the contrary.
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
The first rule of philosophy is to forget everything you think you know. The second is to forget everything you know.
One can be both right and ridiculous.
No dogma is as consuming as relativism.
Metaphysics: Logic metastasized.
Stereotypes are folk statistics.
The conclusions of philosophy are both true and interesting; but what is true is not interesting, and what is interesting is not true.
Any discipline that aspires to predict the future must first predict the past.
They laughed at Edison, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed at every hopeless crackpot.
Read a lot: think some: write a little.