Socrates Quotes

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

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 blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

How many things can I do without?

Know thyself.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

I only know that I know nothing

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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

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.