Philosophy Phrases

Phrases

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• Ain't no reason to go anyplace else (Wendy's advertising slogan)
• An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore movie)
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all (from a poem by Keats)
• Blue sky thinking
• Bow to reason
• Carnal knowledge
• Children and fools tell the truth
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Cogito ergo sum (Rene Descartes quotation)
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Economical with the truth
• Face the truth
• Font of all knowledge
• Fuzzy logic
• General knowledge
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Gospel truth
• Grain of truth
• Home truth
• Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park album)
• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin)
• I swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
• I think therefore I am (philosophical comment by Rene Descartes)
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It stands to reason
• Joined up thinking
• Kernel of truth
• Knowledge economy
• Knowledge engineer
• Knowledge is power
• Lateral thinking
• Less than the truth
• Listen to reason
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
• Naked truth
• No earthly reason
• Nuggets of wisdom
• Pearls of wisdom
• Positive thinking

• Put on your thinking cap
• Rhyme nor reason
• Secure in the knowledge
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Sniff out the truth
• Stranger to the truth
• Tell the truth and shame the Devil
• The Admirable Doctor (Nickname of Francis Bacon)
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Age of Reason
• The Monte Carlo theory
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Autobiography of T E Lawrence (of Arabia))
• The Thinking Man's Crumpet (Nickname of Joan Bakewell)
• The Truth (Nickname of Carl Williams)
• The Truth (Nickname of Paul Pierce)
• The knowledge
• The moment of truth
• The naked truth
• The philosopher's stone
• The truth hurts
• The truth is out there (A catchphrase from The X-Files)
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• The truth shall set you free
• The truth will out
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• The wisdom of Solomon
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Voice of reason
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Wishful thinking
• Within reason
• Woolly thinking
• Words of wisdom
• Working knowledge of
• You can't handle the truth (A Few Good Men)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)