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Wise Quotes by Socrates
- All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only…
- Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give…
- Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and…
- The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I…
- Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners…
- Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas…
- The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
- From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
- Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about…
- The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold