Be as you wish to seem.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
An honest man is always a child.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.