Good questions outrank easy answers.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st read more

Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith.

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and read more

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly
recorded.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of read more

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.]

That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.