The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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