Socrates
The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
education
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Socrates
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
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Socrates
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
To move the world we must move ourselves.
Socrates
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates
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
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
art
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
best
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
courage
Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
death
Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
fear
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
friendship
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
god
Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
god
Socrates
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.
good
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
good
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
good
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
good
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
good
Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
good
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
great
Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
knowledge
Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
knowledge
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
life