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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
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
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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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