Socrates Quotes: Socrates is a famous Ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, who was born in Athens. His father is a sculptor. He devoted his life to the moral maturation of himself and his people.
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‘”This is a universe that does not favor the timid.”‘
‘”You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.”‘
‘”The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.”‘
‘”The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”‘
‘”True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”‘
‘”In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”‘
‘”The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.”‘
‘”No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”‘
‘”If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all”‘
‘”No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.”‘
‘”Contentment is natural wealth.”‘
‘”To move the world we must move ourselves.”‘
‘”The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”‘
‘”Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.”‘
‘”It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”‘
‘”Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”‘
‘”The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”‘
‘”To find yourself, think for yourself.”‘
‘”No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training”‘
‘”Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.”‘
‘”All that I know is nothing – I am not even sure of that.”1″‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.”‘
‘”Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen “ities” You will soon attain immortality.”‘
‘”A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”‘
‘”It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one”‘
‘”People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.”‘
‘”There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.”‘
‘”Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.”‘
‘”The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”‘
‘”The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.”‘
‘”The unexamined life is not worth living.”‘
‘”Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”‘
‘”The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.”‘
‘”The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.”‘
‘”We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.”‘
‘”The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.”‘
‘”How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.”‘
‘”They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”‘
‘”Understanding a question is half an answer.”‘
‘”An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.”‘
‘”Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.”‘
‘”Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.”‘
‘”We are what we think we are”‘
‘”Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”‘
‘”The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”‘
‘”Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”‘
‘”Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”‘
‘”If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.”‘
‘”I am a fool, but I know I am a fool and that makes me smarter than you.”‘
‘”Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.”‘
‘”Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.”‘
‘”There is but one evil, ignorance.”‘
‘”Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”‘
‘”Let the questions be the curriculum.”‘
‘”Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.”‘
‘”wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state”‘
‘”There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.”‘
‘”Wisdom begins in wonder.”‘
‘”It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.”‘
‘”Virtue is the beauty of the soul.”‘
‘”The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”‘
‘”When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.”‘
‘”I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”‘
‘”The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.”‘
‘”The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”‘
‘”There is no illness of the body except for the mind”‘
‘”He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”‘
‘”Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”‘
‘”Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher”‘
‘”Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”‘
‘”When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.”‘
‘”There is no learning without remembering.”‘
‘”True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”‘
‘”The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.”‘
‘”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.”‘
‘”Every action has its pleasures and its price.”‘
‘”In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.”‘
‘”When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.”‘
‘”When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”‘
‘”A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”‘
‘”If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.”‘
‘”Be true to thine own self.”‘
‘”Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.”‘
‘”Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.”‘
‘”Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”‘
‘”Fear of women love more than hate the man.”‘
‘”The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”‘
‘”The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.”‘
‘”Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.”‘
‘”Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.”‘
‘”Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”‘
‘”What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.”‘
‘”He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.”‘
‘”God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.”‘
‘”The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.”‘
‘”In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.”‘
‘”Happiness is unrepented pleasure.”‘
‘”I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”‘
‘”See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.”‘
‘”An unexamined life is a life of no account.”‘
‘”Laws are not made for the good.”‘
‘”If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”‘
‘”The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.”‘
‘”In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”‘
‘”There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge”‘
‘”Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”‘
‘”One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”‘
‘”Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”‘
‘”The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”‘
‘”Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”‘
‘”Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.”‘
‘”For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”‘
‘”To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.”‘
‘”The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”‘
‘”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?”‘
‘”Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.”‘
‘”All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth”‘
‘”The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.”‘
‘”The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.”‘
‘”The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”‘
‘”Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”‘
‘”I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.”‘
‘”To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.”‘
‘”From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”‘
‘”Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.”‘
‘”The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living”‘
‘”I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.”‘
‘”Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.”‘
‘”Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.”‘
‘”When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”‘
‘”Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”‘
‘”I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.”‘
‘”Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”‘
‘”I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”‘
‘”The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”‘
‘”One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”‘
‘”The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.”‘
‘”This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.”‘
‘”It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”‘
‘”I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”‘
‘”Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”‘
‘”Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.”‘
‘”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”‘
‘”The only thing I know is that I know nothing”‘
‘”No one does wrong voluntarily.”‘
‘”The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.”‘
‘”Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.”‘
‘”True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”‘
‘”If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil”‘
‘”The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.”‘
‘”The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.”‘
‘”To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”‘
‘”The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.”‘
‘”A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.”‘
‘”I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”‘
‘”Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”‘
‘”The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.”‘
‘”He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”‘
‘”I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.”‘
‘”And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels – temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth – she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.”‘
‘”The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.”‘
‘”Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”‘
‘”This is…self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.”‘
‘”To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”‘
‘”Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”‘
‘”All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.”‘
‘”By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.”‘
‘”So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?”‘
‘”To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”‘
‘”The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.”‘
‘”As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent”‘
‘”One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.”‘
‘”Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.”‘
‘”Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.”‘
‘”To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”‘
‘”To know, is to know that you know nothing.”‘
‘”Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.”‘
‘”The warm love has the coldest end.”‘
‘”Wisdom is knowing how little we know.”‘
‘”If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.”‘
‘”The examined life is the only life worth living.”‘
‘”You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.”‘
‘”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 fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.”‘
‘”The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”‘
‘”The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.”‘
‘”The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.”‘
‘”I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing”‘
‘”There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.”‘
‘”Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.”‘
‘”Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.”‘
‘”But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”‘
‘”God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.”‘
‘”Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.”‘
‘”I only know that I know nothing”‘
‘”Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.”‘
‘”Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.”‘