Socrates quotes.

All 22 quotations by Socrates in our collection.

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

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