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Top 10 Ward Farnsworth Quotes (2025 Update)

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

1. “The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

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Ward Farnsworth Quote: “If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47.”

2. “If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47.”

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Ward Farnsworth Quote: “When you see someone groveling before another man, or flattering him contrary to his own opinion, you can confidently say he is not free.”

3. “When you see someone groveling before another man, or flattering him contrary to his own opinion, you can confidently say he is not free.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7.”

4. “If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”

5. “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “If we treat Socrates as an internalized feature of the mind, then this is its first and constant order of business: uprooting false conceits of knowledge.”

6. “If we treat Socrates as an internalized feature of the mind, then this is its first and constant order of business: uprooting false conceits of knowledge.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinions about those things.”

7. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinions about those things.”

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Ward Farnsworth Quote: “Aporia can not only prepare you to learn but make you want to learn.4 It feels frustrating. In effect Socrates says: good – now get going on the search for an answer, this time with a better sense of the work it takes. You are made hungry for knowledge by discovering how little you have.”

8. “Aporia can not only prepare you to learn but make you want to learn.4 It feels frustrating. In effect Socrates says: good – now get going on the search for an answer, this time with a better sense of the work it takes. You are made hungry for knowledge by discovering how little you have.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “We always feel as though we react to things in the world; in fact we react to things in ourselves. And sometimes changing ourselves will be more effective and sensible than trying to change the world.”

9. “We always feel as though we react to things in the world; in fact we react to things in ourselves. And sometimes changing ourselves will be more effective and sensible than trying to change the world.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “The majority of mankind would need to be much better cultivated than has ever yet been the case, before they can be asked to place such reliance in their own power of estimating arguments, as to give up practical principles in which they have been born and bred and which are the basis of much of the existing order of the world, at the first argumentative attack which they are not capable of logically resisting.3.”

10. “The majority of mankind would need to be much better cultivated than has ever yet been the case, before they can be asked to place such reliance in their own power of estimating arguments, as to give up practical principles in which they have been born and bred and which are the basis of much of the existing order of the world, at the first argumentative attack which they are not capable of logically resisting.3.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.”

11. “We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “They are all matters of opinion, and taken up voluntarily because it seems right to do so. This error, as the root of all evils, philosophy promises to eradicate utterly. Let us therefore devote ourselves to its cultivation and submit to being cured; for so long as these evils possess us, not only can we not be happy, we cannot even be right in our minds.”

12. “They are all matters of opinion, and taken up voluntarily because it seems right to do so. This error, as the root of all evils, philosophy promises to eradicate utterly. Let us therefore devote ourselves to its cultivation and submit to being cured; for so long as these evils possess us, not only can we not be happy, we cannot even be right in our minds.”

— Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth Quote: “The doings of Sherlock Holmes are better recorded by a Watson than by another Holmes.”

13. “The doings of Sherlock Holmes are better recorded by a Watson than by another Holmes.”

— Ward Farnsworth

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