Socrates Quotes

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

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.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

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