Wisdom & Self-Knowledge

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.