Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESIt is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
More Socrates Quotes
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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