Greek philosopher quotes

Know thyself. – Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – Socrates

An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

Change is not pleasant, but change is constant. – Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus

The only constant in life is change. – Heraclitus

All things come into being by conflict of opposites. – Empedocles

You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. – Heraclitus

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Man is a political animal. – Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle

To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates

The key to happiness is not to seek it, but to create it. – Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. – Epicurus

Nothing is enough for someone to whom enough is too little. – Epicurus

Friendship dances around the world, announcing to us all that we must wake up to glorious prospects. – Epicurus

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. – Epicurus

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Heraclitus

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. – Socrates

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Heraclitus

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. – René Descartes

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

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. – Plato

Courage is knowing that you might lose everything, but still taking that leap of faith anyway. – Archimedes

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato

There is truth in wine and children. – Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. – Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. – Buddha

The only way to happiness is to live moment by moment in acceptance. – Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha

Doubt everything. Find your own light. – Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Aristotle

Good character when established is not easily overthrown. – Herodotus

Even in the finest soil, the seeds of evil germinate. – Sophocles

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. – Diogenes