Wisdom from the Great Minds – Quotes from Philosophers

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

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

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

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

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Aristotle

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

In order to find yourself, you must first lose yourself. – Buddha

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

To be is to do. – Immanuel Kant

To do is to be. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Do be, do be, do. – Frank Sinatra (quoting Sartre and Kant)

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. – Appius Claudius

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

The key to happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. – Epictetus

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

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – John Lennon

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

Wisdom from the Great Minds – Quotes from Philosophers part 2

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

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

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. – Plato

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

Happiness is the highest good. – Aristotle

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – René Descartes

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think, therefore I am. – René Descartes

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

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 value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he receives. – Albert Einstein

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

Man is the measure of all things. – Protagoras

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell