Socrates
Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.Collection: Heart
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.Collection: Understanding
Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?Collection: Car
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.Collection: Fruit
What a lot of things I don't need.Collection: Needs
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.Collection: Wisdom
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.Collection: Love
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.Collection: Apology
Knowledge is our ultimate good.Collection: Knowledge
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.Collection: Order
The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.Collection: Honor
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?Collection: Death
The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.Collection: Men
Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.Collection: Apology
Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.Collection: Art
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.Collection: Apology
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.Collection: Philosophical
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.Collection: History
If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evilCollection: Evil
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.Collection: Honesty
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.Collection: Sleep
All thinking begins with wonderingCollection: Thinking
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.Collection: Light
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.Collection: Men
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.Collection: Wind
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.Collection: Philosophical
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.Collection: Exercise
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.Collection: Worship
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.Collection: Contentment
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.Collection: Life
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.Collection: Inspirational
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.Collection: Science
The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth livingCollection: Pondering
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Know Thyself
Follow the argument wherever it leads.Collection: Atheism
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.Collection: Wisdom
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.Collection: Wind
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.Collection: Healing
The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.Collection: Wise
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.Collection: Inspirational
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.Collection: Education
All things in moderation, including moderation.Collection: Moderation
Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.Collection: Children
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.Collection: Money
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.Collection: Soul
Fear of women love more than hate the man.Collection: Hate
Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.Collection: Wells
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Collection: Success
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.Collection: Lying