Thales of Miletus

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

“The past is certain, the future obscure.”
Aristotle
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Plato
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to
sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can
stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
Socrates
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
Pythagoras
“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”
“Virtue is Harmony”
Zeno
“No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
“Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the
world goes on.”
Empedocles
“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is
nowhere.”
“Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about
the gods are dark.”
Anaximander
“The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited.”
Anaxagoras
“The seed of everything is in everything else.”
“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a
hot rock.”
Parmenides
“It is all one to me where I begin for I shall come back again there.”
“Ex nihilo nihil fit” (Nothing Come from Nothing)