• Famous Socrates Philosophy Quotes on Youth, Life, Death...

Famous Socrates Philosophy Quotes on Youth, Life, Death...

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   Socrates is regarded as sages, an exemplary citizen of Athens, Ancient Greece. He is a thinker between the dark stage and light stage of philosophy in ancient Greece. Socrates longer be regarded as laying the groundwork for rhetoric based system dialogue questions. He has progressive ideas, famous for virtue with the view: "Let's get to know his own self", "I know only one thing that I do not know anything". Let’s see the famous quotes of Socrates.

famous quotes of Socrates

SOCRATES QUOTES

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

Wisdom begins in wonder.

– Socrates 

 

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 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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 

 

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

– Socrates 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

– Socrates 

 

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

– Socrates 

 

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

– Socrates 

 

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 

 

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)

– Socrates 

 

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

– Socrates 

 

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

– Socrates 

 

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

– Socrates 

 

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

– Socrates 

 

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

– Socrates 

 

The unexamined life is not worth living.

– Socrates 

 

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