Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.