Quotes from Socrates

An unexamined life is not worth living.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The mind is everything; what you think you become.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

An honest man is always a child.

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

He is richest who is content with the least.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following after God, will be like Him.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

The first law of success is concentration – to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

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.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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.

The unexamined life is not worth living.