Quotes By Socrates

Top Best Quotes By Socrates

1. Be as you wish to seem.

2. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

3. Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

4. The hottest love has the coldest end.

5. The unexamined life is not worth living.

6. Call no man unhappy until he is married.

7. To move the world we must move ourselves.

8. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

9. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

10. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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.

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

29. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

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

31. 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.