66 Famous Quotes and Sayings by Socrates - Words of Wisdom (Part 3)
66 Famous Quotes and Sayings by Socrates - Words of Wisdom (Part 1)
66 Famous Quotes and Sayings by Socrates - Words of Wisdom (Part 2)
45. Thou should eat to live not live to eat.
– Socrates
46. He is richest who is content with the least.
–Socrates
47. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
–Socrates
48. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
–Socrates
49. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
–Socrates
50. Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
–Socrates
51. We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
– Socrates
52. 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
53. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
– Socrates
54. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
– Socrates
55. My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
56. Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
57. By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
58. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
– Socrates
59. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
– Socrates
60. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
– Socrates
61. My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
– Socrates
62. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.
– Socrates
63. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
– Socrates
64. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
– Socrates
65. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
– Socrates
66. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
– Socrates
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