Socrates Quotes on Knowledge
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – Socrates
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” – Socrates
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.” – Socrates
“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.” – Socrates
“You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.” – Socrates
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” – Socrates
“Know Thyself.” – Socrates
“What I do not know, I do not think I know.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes on Change
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.” – Socrates
“Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes on Friendship
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.” – Socrates
“There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.” – Socrates
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes on Joy
“Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think.” – Socrates
“Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.” – Socrates
“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.” – Socrates
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes on Kindness
“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.” – Socrates
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” – Socrates
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes About Life
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” – Socrates
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” – Socrates
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.” – Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” – Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes About Love
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.” – Socrates
Socrates Quotes on Everything Else
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” – Socrates
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” – Socrates
“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” – Socrates
“We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.” – Socrates
“If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.” – Socrates
“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.” – Socrates
“Justice. If only we knew what it was.” – Socrates
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Socrates
“It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.” – Socrates
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” – Socrates
“I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” – Socrates
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” – Socrates
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” – Socrates
“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.” – Socrates
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
“Speak, so that I may see you.” – Socrates
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” – Socrates
“The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.” – Socrates
“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.” – Socrates
“Understanding a question is half the answer.” – Socrates
“The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble true birth.” – Socrates
“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.” – Socrates
“How many are the things I can do without!” – Socrates
“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” – Socrates
“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.” – Socrates
“We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.” – Socrates
“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.” – Socrates
“Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.” – Socrates
“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.” – Socrates
“An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.” – Socrates
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates
“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.” – Socrates
“The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.” – Socrates
“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” – Socrates
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” – Socrates
“The mind is everything; what you think you become” – Socrates
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” – Socrates
“When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” – Socrates
“A multitude of books distracts the mind.” – Socrates
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” – Socrates
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.” – Socrates
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