Epictetus Philosophy Quotes

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

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

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

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

- Richard Monckton Milnes

A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

- Lao Tzu

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

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Aristotle