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

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

- 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

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

- Diogenes

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

- 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

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

- Diogenes

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

- Diogenes