Epictetus Knowing Quotes

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

- Epictetus

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

- Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

- Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him

- Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

- Peter Lynch

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

- Thomas Edison

Courage is knowing what not to fear

- Plato

The worst feeling in the world is knowing you've been used and lied to by someone you trusted.

- Anonymous

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

- William Cowper

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.

- Anonymous

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

- Aristotle