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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- 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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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