wisdom Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.