The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Quote by Socrates
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Socrates Quotes
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- 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.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- 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.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Best Quotes
- Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
- If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
- Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
- Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.