Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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