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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
by Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

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

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

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

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

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

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

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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

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

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

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

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that 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

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

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know 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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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

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

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

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

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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman


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