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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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 envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know 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
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
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 was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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