Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Man must be taught as if you taught him not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul follows the body, and by means of the body makes its way to God.

If you are not as you wish to be, why do you make a pretense of it?

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is truly worthless.

I am a man, and like all men, I am mortal.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

I know that I know nothing.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

An honest man is always a child.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Sometimes you have to play a long innings to make a match your own.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind comes by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.