More Socrates Quotes

1. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes y ...
   
2. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. ...
   
3. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas ...
   
4. Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art ...
   
5. But already it is time to depart, for me to die, f ...
   
6. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll ...
   
7. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their ...
   
8. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ...
   
9. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you ...
   
10. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the fill ...
    
11. Employ your time in improving yourself by other me ...
    
12. Envy is the ulcer of the soul. ...
    
13. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by g ...
    
14. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. ...
    
15. He is richest who is content with the least, for c ...
    
16. He who is not contented with what he has, would no ...
    
17. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of ...
    
18. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, a ...
    
19. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make t ...
    
20. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poet ...
    
21. I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old ...
    
22. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ...
    
23. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that ...
    
24. I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man nei ...
    
25. I was afraid that by observing objects with my eye ...
    
26. If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should no ...
    
27. Let him that would move the world, first move hims ...
    
28. Living well and beautifully and justly are all one ...
    
29. My advice to you is get married if you find a good ...
    
30. My belief is that to have no wants is divine. ...
    
31. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ...
    
32. Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal. ...
    
33. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intel ...
    
34. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the ...
    
35. Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can ...
    
36. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecomi ...
    
37. Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means o ...
    
38. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul fo ...
    
39. The greatest way to live with honor in this world ...
    
40. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our w ...
    
41. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ig ...
    
42. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothin ...
    
43. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in ...
    
44. The unexamined life is not worth living. ...
    
45. The unexamined life is not worth living. ...
    
46. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor t ...
    
47. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, i ...
    
48. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words ...
    
49. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. ...
    
50. To find yourself, think for yourself. ...
    
51. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know not ...
    
52. Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, ...
    
53. What you cannot enforce, do not command. ...
    
54. When desire, having rejected reason and overpowere ...
    
55. When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool ...
    
56. Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form ...
    
57. Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ...
    
58. Wisdom begins in wonder. ...
    
59. You are providing for your disciples a show of wis ...