*Socrates- -"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." *Democritus- -"Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses." *Epictetus- -"Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is, our ideas about things." *Heraclitus- -"It is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognize the value of health , through evil the value of good, through hunger satisfaction, through exertion, the value of rest." *Lao Tzu- -"Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness." -"To be worn out is to be renewed." *Confucius- -"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." -"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." -"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." -"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow,I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." *Plato- -"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with." -"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." *Marcus Aurelius- -"Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust." -"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." -"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack."