Inspired By Wisdom

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.  - Aristotle

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.  - Aristotle

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  - Aristotle

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.  – 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. - Plato Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.  - Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.  - Aristotle

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.  - Aristotle

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.  - Plato

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.  - Aristotle

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.  - Plato

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.  - Aristotle

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.  - Plato

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.  - Aristotle

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.  - Plato

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.  - Aristotle

Words are the counters of wise men and the money of fools.  ―  Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy ―  Thomas Hobbes No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. ―  John Stuart Mill Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. -  Jeremy Bentham

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.  -  Jeremy Bentham

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.  ―  John Stuart Mill