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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ...
by Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Related topics: Wisdom

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates PHOTO

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) PHOTO

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates PHOTO

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates


 

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates

All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates

My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)


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