Socrates Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Socrates
Socrates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Socrates quotes: I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. Socrates quotes: I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-974316.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves. Socrates quotes: The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1522273.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!' Socrates quotes: Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-65819.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. Socrates quotes: Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1807873.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: 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. Socrates quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-292249.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible. Socrates quotes: Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1847761.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. Socrates quotes: Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-607486.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them. Socrates quotes: One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1583639.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. Socrates quotes: The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1524113.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: 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 Socrates quotes: 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-2125629.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: 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. Socrates quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1789475.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. Socrates quotes: A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1851424.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Smart people learn from everything and everyone,Average people from their experiences,Stupid people already have all the answers. Socrates quotes: Smart people learn from everything and everyone,Average people from their experiences,Stupid people already have all the answers.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-532411.jpg)
Average people from their experiences,
Stupid people already have all the answers.
![Socrates quotes: Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. Socrates quotes: Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-364032.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. Socrates quotes: In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-205870.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: 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 Socrates quotes: 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-63271.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state Socrates quotes: Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1335165.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher Socrates quotes: Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1294619.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates quotes: True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-1007751.jpg)
![Socrates quotes: 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. Socrates quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/socrates-quotes-999801.jpg)