66 Famous Quotes and Sayings by Socrates - Words of Wisdom (Part 1)

The Great Quotes about LIFE from famous philosopher Socrates.

SOCRATES QUOTES

1. Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

– Socrates

2. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

– Socrates

3. I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

– Socrates

4. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

– Socrates

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

– Socrates

6. 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.

– Socrates

7. Wisdom begins in wonder.

– Socrates

8. Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

– Socrates

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

– Socrates

10. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

– Socrates

11. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

– Socrates

12. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

– Socrates

13. I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

– Socrates

14. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

– Socrates

15. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

– Socrates

16. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

– Socrates

17. Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

– Socrates

18. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

– Socrates

19. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

– Socrates

20. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

– Socrates

21. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

– Socrates

22. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

– Socrates

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