For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.