Socrates Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

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

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

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

To move the world, we must first move ourselves.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

Be as you wish to seem.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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.

Socrates Quotes part 2

The hottest love has the coldest end.

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

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

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and everything.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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

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

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

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

Speak so that I may see you.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of oneself.

Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.