Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Socrates Quote # 20
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Socrates Quote # 19
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates Quote # 18
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 Quote # 17
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates Quote # 13
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates Quote # 12
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Socrates Quote # 11
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Socrates Quote # 6
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates Quote # 4
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates Quote # 3
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Motivational Quote # 72
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
By Socrates
By Socrates
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