Socrates quotes.
All 22 quotations by Socrates in our collection.
“Know thyself.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“Falling down is not failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“An un-examined life is not worth living.”
“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
“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.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“The world is a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
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