Socrates Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

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

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

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

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 filling of a vessel.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

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

The hottest love has the coldest end.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent.

Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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

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

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

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

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

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

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

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

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

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. Socrates on life and death

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

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.