Quotes by Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
– Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
– Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
– Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
– Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
– Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
– Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
– Socrates
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
– Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
– Socrates
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
– Socrates
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
– Socrates
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
– Socrates
Programming is not about what you know.
It’s about what you can figure out.
– Socrates
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
– Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
– Socrates
To find yourself, think for yourself.
– Socrates
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
– Socrates
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
– Socrates
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
– Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
– Socrates
Know Thyself.
– Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
– Socrates
So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
– Socrates
Man, know thyself.
– Socrates
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
– Socrates
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
– Socrates
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
– Socrates
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
– Socrates