Socrates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

I know what I do not know.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Athletics have become professionalized.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

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

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

There is no solution; seek it lovingly

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

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

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

I only know how little I know

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone,
Average people from their experiences,
Stupid people already have all the answers.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

This is ... self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

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

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

Be true to thine own self

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

Talk in order that I may see you.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

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

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

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

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.