True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
More Socrates Quotes
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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