Socrates Scholasticus Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I have the wisdom of one condemned to death:
I own nothing for anything to own me

The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

There is nothing difficult about becoming a sage, and nothing false about transcending the world of appearances.

It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks,
Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow.
But those who do have these two qualities,
Though lacking other virtues, you should revere.

Ain’t nothing an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young one.

Gautama Buddha

Even a false imitation of wisdom must be reckoned as wisdom.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

It was his belief that a witty answer turneth away wrath and that the oil of reason should always be poured on troubled waters.

A Socrates gone mad.

Elia L. Aboumrad