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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- 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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
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
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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Spirit is within me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace begins with me.
- Anonymous
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
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