Explore One Of The Most Powerful 60+Life Changing And Wisdom Quotes By Socrates
01) ”The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
02) ”Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
03) ”Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
04) ”We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
05) ”The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”
06) ”The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”
07) ”The mind is everything; what you think you become.”
08) ”As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
09) ”Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
10) ”Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
11) ”Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
12) ”To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”
13) ”Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
14) ”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.”
15) ”False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
16) ”Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”
17) ”When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
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18) ”Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
19) ”I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
20) ”Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
21) ”The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”
22) ”I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
23) ”I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.”
24) ”Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”
25) ”The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.”
25) ”I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
26) ”Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
27) ”Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
28) ”Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
29) ”The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him.”
30) ”If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
31) ”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.”
32) ”Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
33) ”It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
34) ”Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.”
35) ”The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.”
36) ”The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
37) ”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
38) ”An honest man is always a child.”
39) ”All I know is that I do not know anything.”
40) ”In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
41) ”To find yourself, think for yourself.”
42) ”Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
43) ”Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
44) ”Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
45) ”Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
46) ”The unexamined life is not worth living.”
47) ”Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
48) ”The secret of Happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
49) ”Be slow to fall into Friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
50) ”I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
51) ”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.”
52) ”It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
53) ”To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge.”
54) ”The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
55) ”Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
56) ”I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
57) ”Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.”
58) ”He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
59) ”Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
60) ”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.”
61) ”True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
62) ”Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
