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Wisdom begins in wonder. ...
by Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Quotes by Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know 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
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Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
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 a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
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
Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
