More Wisdom Quotes of Ancient Philosophers

We often become so involved in the stress of our daily lives that we forget to stop and step out of the routine for a moment. I find that connecting with the ancient philosophers and pondering their writing helps me to keep a better perspective when faced with the daily challenges of life.

• William Shakespeare – A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows him self to be a fool.
• Albert Einstein -There is more to life than increasing its speed.
• Sophocles – Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
• Cicero - The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
• Mohandas Gandhi – Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
• Plato - There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
• Confucius – What the superior man seeks in himself is what the small man seeks in others.
• Aristotle - Hope is the dream of a waking man.
• Plato – Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Lao Tzu - Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
• Euripides - Cleverness is not wisdom.
• Xystus I -The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.