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May these quotes about Greeks inspire and motivate you.
Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
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Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
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Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
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I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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