Socrates Quotes

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

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

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

How many things there are which I do not want.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

To do is to be.

What most counts is not to live but to live aright.

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.

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

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

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

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.