William Shakespeare

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Ambrose Bierce

"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

William James

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

- William James, philosopher and psychologist

Henry Ward Beecher

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer