Socrates Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

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

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

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

We are what we think we are

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

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

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Be as you wish to seem.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

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

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

An honest man is always a child.

She soars on her own wings.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.