Epictetus Realization Quotes

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

- 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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin Roosevelt

When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little.

- Jay Shetty

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

- Aristotle

Sarcasm – the ability to insult idiots without them realizing it

- Anonymous

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

- Albert Einstein

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle