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

 

"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates

 

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

 

"An unexamined life is like a ship without a rudder." -Socrates

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

 

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms." -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

 

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." -Socrates "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." -Socrates

 

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." -Socrates

 

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when you art in, continue firm & constant." -Socrates

 

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." -Socrates

 

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

 

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul." -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

 

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." -Socrates "I cannot make him [Aristophanes] a serious man myself; but I can make him think seriously." -Socrates

 

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." -Socrates

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Socrates

 

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

 

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

 

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -Socrates

 

"Let him who would move the world first move himself." -Socrates

 

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates

 

"The only thing I know is that I know nothing." -Socrates

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." -Socrates

 

"The measure of a man is what he does with power." -Socrates

 

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

 

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." -Socrates

 

"Be as you wish to seem." -Socrates

 

"The wise speak only of what they know." -Socrates

 

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener." -Socrates

 

"I cannot conceive of any greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect." -Socrates

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