top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Wisdom quotes
"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."
"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."
"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
"If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime."
Explore more quotes by Epictetus
"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."
"Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement."
"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials."
"So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts."
"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one."
bottom of page