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Please enjoy these inspirational quotes by Socrates.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
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
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- 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 to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you 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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
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
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
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