Asir Milton > Asir's Quotes

“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

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― 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

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
― Socrates

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― 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

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates

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

[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
― Socrates

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

“Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making and Counters Faulty Reasoning with Research-Backed Good Sense

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored,’ said writer Aldous Huxley.”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making