Socrates Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
Beware Sayings
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Rattlesnake Sayings
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity Sayings
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mother Sayings
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
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