There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?