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Socrates Quotes On Life, Wisdom & Philosophy To Inspire You
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
- Be as you wish to seem.
- 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.
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- 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.
- A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
- To find yourself, think for yourself.
- Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- To find yourself, think for yourself.
- Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
- Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
- The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
- When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
- The hottest love has the coldest end.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Call no man unhappy until he is married.
- Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
- The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
- By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you’ll become happy, while if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.
- In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
- No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
- I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.
- An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
- Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
- Speak, so that I may see you.
- Justice. If only we knew what it was.
- Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Know Thyself.
- He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
- What I do not know, I do not think I know.
- Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
- Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.
- It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
- They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
- You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
- Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
- Every action has its pleasures and its price.
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Understanding a question is half an answer.
- The greatest blessing granted to mankind came by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
- Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
- I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
- The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
- Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
- The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
- I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
- The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
- I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
- True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.
- There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
- Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
- The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.
- Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
- 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 is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
