Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Blame is safer than praise.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights…sexual intercourse!…His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.