Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence."

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."

Democritus (c. 460-370 BCE)
“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses."

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence."

Socrates (c. 469-399 BCE)
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

“The unexamined life is not worth living."

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

Plato (428-327 BCE)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

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

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412-323 BCE)
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."

Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE)
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."

Heraclitus (535-475 BCE)
“Time is a game played beautifully by children."

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."

Pericles (c. 495-429 BCE)
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. "

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come."

Epictetus (c. 55135 AD)
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

Sokrates
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, youÅ‚ll become happy; if you get a bad one, youÅ‚ll become a philosopher."
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
“To find yourself, think for yourself."
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
“Know thyself."
“Let him who would move the world first move himself."
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
“understanding a question is half an answer"
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
“To be is to do"
“The mind is everything; what you think you become"

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all Yourself!
Real Sign of intelligence isn't Knowledge, It's IMAGINATION
Don't limit a Child to your own learning, for he was born in Another time