Philosophical quotes

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

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward. – Soren Kierkegaard

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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

A true philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not a lover of words. – Socrates

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle

The only thing I know is that I know nothing. – Socrates

I think therefore I am. – Rene Descartes

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

The greatest victory is to conquer yourself. – Plato

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

Man is the measure of all things. – Protagoras

The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Being happy never goes out of style. – Lilly Pulitzer

You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. – Anonymous

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

Life isn’t about finding yourself. it’s about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. – Benjamin Franklin

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. – Joseph Joubert

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ – C.S. Lewis

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – Henry Ford

No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius