(28 quotes found)
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
“Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R”
Don Marquis
“Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.”
Xenophon
“Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.”
Tom Morris
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”
“Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.”
Lord Byron
