2. Understanding a question is half an answer.

3. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

4. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

5. The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

6. Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

7. I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

9. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

10. Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

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

3. Every action has its pleasure and its price.

4. I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

5. No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

6. I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

7.Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

8. Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

2. Be as you wish to seem.

3. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

4. I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.

5. The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.

6. Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

7. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

8. The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

9. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

2. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

3. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

4. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

5. The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

6. Wisdom begins in wonder.

7. When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

8. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

9. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

10. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

2. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

3. The unexamined life is not worth living.

4. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

5. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

6. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

7. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

8. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

9. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. 

1. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.