Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

- Diogenes

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hur…

- Diogenes

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

- Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

- Diogenes

I am looking for an honest man.

- Diogenes

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

- Diogenes

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

- Diogenes

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contem…

- Diogenes

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

- Diogenes