Socrates's Quotes

Socrates's Quotes 90

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand...

Be as you wish to seem.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry,...

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you...

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and...

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be...

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

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

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;...

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere...

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in...

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his...

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and...

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry,...

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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