Socrates Quotes

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

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.

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior.