True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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