Philosopher Quotes – Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers

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

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

I think, therefore I am. – René Descartes

Man is condemned to be free. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. – Sun Tzu

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

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

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

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

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. – Socrates

I think, therefore I exist. – René Descartes

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

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

Philosopher Quotes – Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers part 2

A wise man knows that he knows nothing. – Socrates

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

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

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. – Buddha

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – William Shakespeare

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

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

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. – Albert Einstein

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – André Gide

Happiness is the highest good. – Aristotle

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates

The only true voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. – Ayn Rand

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Søren Kierkegaard

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. – Simone de Beauvoir

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Unknown

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

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. – Seneca

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem