Echoes

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life. Yet even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. But this conviction must be firmly grasped and not merely adopted in words, if we wish to draw any strength from what we know.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Withdraw into yourself as much as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.

In pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

I know that I know nothing.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.