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.
SOCRATESThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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