Socrates Quotes
1. Know thyself. – Socrates
2. Be as you wish to seem. – Socrates
3. Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates
4. Envy is the ulcer of the soul. – Socrates
5. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. – Socrates
6. Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. – Socrates
7. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Socrates
8. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. – Socrates
9. Through your rags I see your vanity. – Socrates
10. Beware the barrenness of a busy life. – Socrates
11. To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates
12. The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates
13. Call no man unhappy until he is married. – Socrates
14. A multitude of books distracts the mind. – Socrates
15. The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
16. How many are the things I can do without! – Socrates
17. To move the world we must move ourselves. – Socrates
18. Nothing is to be preferred before justice. – Socrates
19. Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think. – Socrates
20. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. – Socrates
21. Understanding a question is half the answer. – Socrates
22. Every action has its pleasures and its price. – Socrates
23. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. – Socrates
24. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. – Socrates
25. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. – Socrates
26. The mind is everything; what you think you become – Socrates
27. The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. – Socrates
28. The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. – Socrates
29. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. – Socrates
30. All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth. – Socrates
31. I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. – Socrates
32. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. – Socrates
33. What a lot of things there are a man can do without. – Socrates
34. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
35. Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. – Socrates
36. Let him that would move the world, first move himself. – Socrates
37. One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. – Socrates
38. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. – Socrates
39. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. – Socrates
40. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Socrates
41. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. – Socrates
42. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. – Socrates
43. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. – Socrates
44. I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. – Socrates
45. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. – Socrates
46. Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are. – Socrates
47. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. – Socrates
48. I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. – Socrates
49. There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance. – Socrates
50. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. – Socrates
51. When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. – Socrates
52. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. – Socrates
53. The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. – Socrates
54. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. – Socrates
55. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. – Socrates
56. It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one. – Socrates
57. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates
58. An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. – Socrates
59. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? – Socrates
60. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.– Socrates – Socrates
61. There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. – Socrates
62. The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. – Socrates
63. The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. – Socrates
64. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. – Socrates
65. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. – Socrates
66. Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise. – Socrates
67. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates – Socrates
68. The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. – Socrates
69. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. – Socrates
70. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Socrates
71. Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. – Socrates
72. Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. – Socrates
73. To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. – Socrates
74. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
75. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates
76. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates
77. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates
78. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates
79. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates
80. He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
81. The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates
82. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. – Socrates
83. In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. – Socrates
84. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. – Socrates
85. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. – Socrates
86. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – Socrates
87. Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. – Socrates
88. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. – Socrates
89. The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. – Socrates
90. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. – Socrates
91. The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. – Socrates
92. They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. – Socrates
93. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. – Socrates
94. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. – Socrates
95. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. – Socrates
96. When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it. – Socrates
97. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. – Socrates
98. Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Socrates
99. If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. – Socrates
100. By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you’ll become happy, while if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates