Quotes By Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Be as you wish to seem.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

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

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

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

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

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.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

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

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

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

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.