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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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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

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An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

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

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

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

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

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you 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

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

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

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

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of 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

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

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

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

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

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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