Quotes by Diogenes

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

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

“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”

“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”

“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”

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

“Nothing can be produced out of nothing.”

“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.”

“We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.”