Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

If I save my insight, I don__ attend to weakness of eyesight.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart__ desire the other is to get it.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse to accompany them on their haphazard journey; and, believing that it is wrong to oppose philosophy with her offer of liberation and purification, they turn and follow her wherever she leads...

Wisdom begins in wonder.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.