Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Modesty is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audi...
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish...
DIOGENES OF SINOPE In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot...
DIOGENES OF SINOPE It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE No man is hurt but by himself
DIOGENES OF SINOPE The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then ...
DIOGENES OF MAYBERRY No man is hurt but by himself.
DIOGENES Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audi...
DIOGENES Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish...
DIOGENES No man is hurt but by himself
DIOGENES Modesty is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
DIOGENES Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
DIOGENES Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
DIOGENES Blushing is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instru...
DIOGENES Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
DIOGENES It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
DIOGENES I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I se...
DIOGENES The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third o...
DIOGENES Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of disti...
DIOGENES I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
DIOGENES I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting...
DIOGENES Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
DIOGENES Stand a little less between me and the sun.
DIOGENES There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
DIOGENES When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I lo...
DIOGENES Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENES In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DIOGENES I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruc...
DIOGENES Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
DIOGENES The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENES We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
DIOGENES In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third o...
DIOGENES A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a ric...
DIOGENES It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could ...
DIOGENES I still have my lantern.
DIOGENES I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
DIOGENES Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world
DIOGENES Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
DIOGENES Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, "Whichever you do you will r...
DIOGENES Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audi...
DIOGENES The mob is the mother of tyrants
DIOGENES The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them
DIOGENES Man is the most intelligent of the animals -- and the most silly.
DIOGENES Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emi...
DIOGENES One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted
DIOGENES Stand a little less between me and the sun
DIOGENES Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
DIOGENES He has the most who is most content with the least
DIOGENES On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as ...
DIOGENES I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I se...
DIOGENES When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I lo...
DIOGENES We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less
DIOGENES I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting...
DIOGENES Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards
DIOGENES I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance
DIOGENES The great thieves lead away the little thief
DIOGENES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man
DIOGENES Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an aud...
DIOGENES A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies
DIOGENES It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could ...
DIOGENES The great thieves lead away the little thief.
DIOGENES Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; - that laws were like cobwebs, -for that if ...
DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Take the goods the gods provide thee.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES None but the brave deserve the fair.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES The truly noble mind has no resentments.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Sweet is pleasure after pain.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
DIOGENES LAERTIUS Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his e...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laerti...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if ...
DIOGENES THE CYNIC Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
DIOGENES THE CYNIC A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
TERESA OF AVILA Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ru...
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at onc...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than ...
THALES OF MILETUS If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
ZENO OF CITIUM I don't exist when you don't see me.
SISTERS OF MERCY Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's wom...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a ...
MECHTHILD OF MAGHEBURG Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea...
SISTERS OF MERCY Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM