![]() ![]() “Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.” ~ Socrates.As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behavior, and dress.” ~ Socrates They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. They have no reverence for parents or old age. “The young people of today think of nothing but themselves.“He is the richest who is content with the least.” ~ Socrates.The happiest people on earth don’t have the best of everything… they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” ~ Socrates, Socrates quotes on love ![]() Yesterday is about experience tomorrow is about hope today is about transitioning from one to the other. ![]() “Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs.“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.” ~ Socrates.“I am a fool, but I know I’m a fool and that makes me smarter than you.” ~ Socrates.“I call myself a Peaceful Warrior… because the battles we fight are on the inside.” ~ Socrates.“I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.” ~ Socrates.“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.” ~ Socrates.“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” ~ Socrates.“This is a universe that does not favor the timid.” ~ Socrates.The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.” ~ Socrates “No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another.“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ~ Socrates.They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents.“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~ Socrates.“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ~ Socrates, Socrates quotes on life.Once you’ve tasted the truth, you won’t ever want to go back to being ignorant” ~ Socrates In fact, you want more! It’s true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don’t care. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. We are even comfortable with that ignorance because it is all we know. “Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance.“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” ~ Socrates.“If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.” ~ Socrates.“Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Socrates.For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils.” ~ Socrates, Socrates quotes on death “To fear death, my friends is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ~ Socrates. ![]() Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” ~ Socrates ![]()
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