Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESIf 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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 greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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