As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. ...
by Socrates

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

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

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

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

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

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

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

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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

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

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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

Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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

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

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

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)

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

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

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz

A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch

"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

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