Ancient Greek Philosophers

A man should enquire about that which he does not know.

—Socrates

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

—Socrates

If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.

—Socrates

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

—Socrates

Know thyself.

—Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

—Socrates

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy.

If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

—Socrates

Every action has its pleasure and its price.

—Socrates

Understanding a question is half an answer.

—Socrates

Falling down is not a failure.

Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

—Socrates

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

—Socrates

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

—Socrates

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

—Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

—Socrates

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

—Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

—Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

—Socrates

It is fear and terror that makes all men brave, except the philosophers.

—Socrates

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

—Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

—Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

—Socrates

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

—Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

—Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

—Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

—Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

—Aristotle

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

—Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

—Aristotle

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.

—Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

—Aristotle