Quotation Library
Philosophy & Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Liberty lies in being able to do what one ought to do.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Time is a created thing. To say āI donāt have timeā is like saying āI donāt want to.ā
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you donāt know.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.