50 Socrates Quotes – True Socrates Wisdom
Looking for the best Socrates quotes? These 50 epic quotes about Socrates will show you what true wisdom is all about.
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SOCRATES QUOTES
1 – The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing. Socrates
2 – To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates
3 – Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Socrates
4 -He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. Socrates
5 – When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates
6 – He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
7- The children now love luxury; they have bad manners; contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” (Attributed to Socrates (469-399 B.C.) by Plato.)
8 – Every action has its pleasure and its price. Socrates
9 – The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. Socrates
10 – True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many. Socrates
SOCRATES QUOTES
11 – The mind is everything; what you think you become. Socrates
12 – I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside. Socrates
13 – Those who are hardest to love need it the most. Socrates
14 – I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing. Socrates
15 – False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
16 – Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise. Socrates
17- If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. Socrates
18 – Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. Socrates
19 – Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. Socrates
20 – Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
SOCRATES QUOTES
21 – The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. Socrates
22 – 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. Socrates
23 – Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. Socrates
24 – Be as you wish to seem. Socrates
25 – The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow. Socrates
26 – An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. Socrates
27- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. Socrates
28 – Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates
29 – The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. Socrates
30 – Know thyself. Socrates
SOCRATES QUOTES
31 – Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Socrates
32 – Let him who would move the world first move himself. Socrates
33 – Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates
34 – Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think. Socrates
35 – Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
36 – Nothing is to be preferred before justice. Socrates
37- 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
38 – The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
39 – Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Socrates
40 – If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates
SOCRATES QUOTES
41 – I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Socrates
42 – In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Socrates
43 – The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. Socrates
44 – Understanding a question is half an answer. Socrates
45 – By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates
46 – What a lot of things a man can do without. Socrates
47- Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates
48 – Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates
49 – Life is full of questions. Idiots are full of answers. Socrates
50 – Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers. Socrates
BONUS: Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. Socrates
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Frances Vidakovic
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