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Socrates Quotes - Page 3

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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Believe, Excellence, Form

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

Regret, Interesting, Cases

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Life, Drinking, Reality

"The Skinny Budget Die". Book by Linda Goff, 2013.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Exercise, Body, Care

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

Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Fall, Dust, Sand

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Wise, Wisdom, People

Let the questions be the curriculum.

Curriculum

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Lying, Goal, Limits

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

Care, May, Introvert

You don't know what you don't know.

Dilemma, Knows

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Mistake, People, Care

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Ignorance, Two, Soul

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

Warrior, Journey, Wind

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Life, Action, Pleasure

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Moving, World

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Ignorance, Recognizing, True Wisdom

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Workout, Bad Ass, Men

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Faith, Wisdom, Thinking

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Prayer, Blessed, Philosophical

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Life, Childhood, Age

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Money, Jewels, Soul

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Wisdom, Thinking, Majority

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

Law, People, Parent

YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS

Causes, Goodness

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