Words matter. These are the best Socrates Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Be as you wish to seem.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.