Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

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

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

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Know thyself."

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles."

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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