True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- 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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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 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
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- 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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
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 greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
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
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
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