Sophocles Quotes and Sayings

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful save by trial.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.

Stranger in a strange country.

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

The end excuses any evil.

The ideal condition Would be I admit that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Death is not the worst thing rather when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Money There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Of all human ills greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.

Numberless are the world’s wonders but none More wonderful than man.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead not even though you hate him.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

No man loves life like him that’s growing old.

Much speech is one thing well-timed speech is another.

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.

What you cannot enforce do not command.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.